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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen By Mary Norris. 97803
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- Condition
- Title
- Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
- ISBN
- 9780393357868
- Book Title
- Greek to Me : Adventures of the Comma Queen
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs, General
- Item Weight
- 7.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393357864
ISBN-13
9780393357868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038298492
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greek to Me : Adventures of the Comma Queen
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, General
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read. --Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Greek to Me [is] an ode to the joy of exercising free reign in one's life...Norris is an uncommonly engaging, witty enthusiast with a nose for delicious details and funny asides that makes you willing to follow her anywhere.--Heller McAlpin, NPR A rapturous memoir of falling in love with language...At their best, these pages leave you feeling salt-kissed and freshly tanned, languorous with ouzo.--Rory Tolan, Washington Post Charming...Aiming at times for slapstick, Ms. Norris keeps uncovering veins of tragedy.--A. E. Stallings, Wall Street Journal Norris' vibrant prose flies off the page, and the breadth of her material set my head spinning at times. Still, she brings it all together with insight and wisdom.--Elfrieda Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune An entertaining, erudite, and altogether delightful journey fueled by the love of language.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) What a fantastic book! Not only is Greek to Me educational, entertaining, and gorgeously written, it shows us how intellectual curiosity coupled with a dash of bravery can pave the way for a more meaningful life. Mary Norris does for Greek and Greece what Cheryl Strayed did for hiking. Readers will long to follow in her footsteps.--Ann Patchett I fell in love with Mary Norris's first book, and am now even more in love with this charming, ribald, highly informed, and always funny excursion through the language, culture, and oddities of Greece and the Greek language. An adventure tale for intellectuals--and also for the rest of us.--Steve Martin Mary Norris's love for all things Greek is palpable and infectious. She is a charming, insightful guide through both ancient and modern glories, and I expect her lush descriptions of the Greek countryside to provoke a tourism stampede.--Madeline Miller As a reader, I would follow the writer Mary Norris wherever she goes, and I found myself enthralled by this wondrous journey through Greek myths and language and art. Norris brings everything into the glimmering light--most of all the beauty of words.--David Grann Poignant, antic, hilarious, Mary Norris is the definition of wearing your learning lightly, and after a lifetime of Greek immersion, pouring beer libations, and skinny-dipping in the waters of Aphrodite, her lessons slip down sweetly. This book is true ambrosia.--Caroline Fraser Mary Norris, our master grammarian, proves that knowing the rules sets you free. Here she writes about Greek language, culture, and mythology with an untrammeled grace that's a delight to read and, almost incidentally, a demonstration of high-level literary skill. Greek to Me is a book to dive into--a page-turning and wonderful achievement.--Ian Frazier, What a fantastic book! Not only is Greek to Me educational, entertaining, and gorgeously written, it shows us how intellectual curiosity coupled with a dash of bravery can pave the way for a more meaningful life., [Mary] Norris... whose first book chronicled her passion for punctuation, here recounts, with the same contagious wit and enthusiasm, her obsession with Greece--its language, history and culture., Greek to Me bursts with a cheerful lust for all things Hellenic: the language, ancient and modern; the mythology; the wine; the sunshine; the sea; and, occasionally, the men., Charming, ribald, highly informed, and always funny.... An adventure tale for intellectuals--and also for the rest of us.
Synopsis
Mary Norris, best-selling author of Between You & Me , delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self- expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris's lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Filled with her memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine--and more than a few Greek men-- Greek to Me is the Comma Queen's fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own., Mary Norris, The New Yorker 's Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me , has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me , she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris's memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine--and more than a few Greek men., The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me , Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker 's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me , she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris's lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris's memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine--and more than a few Greek men-- Greek to Me is the Comma Queen's fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own., "One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read." --Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review
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