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Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Taschenbuch von Mary Norris
Sprache: Englisch

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In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and witty paean to the art of expressing oneself clearly and convincingly, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek.

From convincing her The New Yorker bosses to pay for Ancient Greek studies to travelling the sacred way in search of Persephone, Greek to Me is an unforgettable account of both her 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 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 waiters-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.

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and witty paean to the art of expressing oneself clearly and convincingly, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek.

From convincing her The New Yorker bosses to pay for Ancient Greek studies to travelling the sacred way in search of Persephone, Greek to Me is an unforgettable account of both her 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 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 waiters-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.

Über den Autor
Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 240
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780393357868
ISBN-10: 0393357864
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 35786
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Norris, Mary
Hersteller: WW Norton & Co
Maße: 206 x 138 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Norris
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,218 kg
preigu-id: 116778772
Über den Autor
Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 240
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780393357868
ISBN-10: 0393357864
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 35786
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Norris, Mary
Hersteller: WW Norton & Co
Maße: 206 x 138 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Norris
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,218 kg
preigu-id: 116778772
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