Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who began her career as a literary editor with a blue pencil before becoming distracted. She is the author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, and she spent six years as The Times of London's television critic, followed by four (rather unusual) years as the newspaper's sports columnist. For her work for Women's Journal, she was named Columnist of the Year. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 punctuation series. She now writes book reviews for the Sunday Times of London and can be heard on BBC Radio 4.

Former editor Lynne Truss, who is deeply concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation in Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. She declares, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English manner, that it is time to appreciate our commas and semicolons for what they are: wonderful and necessary things. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss demonstrates how commas and apostrophes shape meaning, as well as the hilarious consequences of incorrect punctuation.

With a foreword by Frank McCourt and a lively history of punctuation ranging from Charlemagne's invention of the question mark to George Orwell's rejection of the semicolon, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves makes a compelling case for the preservation of proper punctuation.

Author: Lynne Truss

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