This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. She lives in Brighton, England.In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4.

Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. It's the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don't care enough.' - The Boston Sunday GlobeĪbout the Author Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked.

Truss.' -Janet Maslin, The New York Times 'Witty, smart, passionate.' - Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction 'This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.įeaturing a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.Įats, Shoots & Leaves 'makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. About the Book A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 'New York Times' bestseller 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.īook Synopsis The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world-period.

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