Eats, Shoots & Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Eats, Shoots & Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
ISBN: 9781592402038
Publication Date: 11 April 2006

A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne TrussA's now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.

We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species.

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. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves A"makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss.A"
A-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

A"Witty, smart, passionate.A"
A-Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction

A"Who knew grammar could be so much fun?A"
A-Newsweek

A"Witty and instructive. . . . Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding.A"
A-USA Today A"Truss is William Safire crossed with John CleeseA's Basil Fawlty.A"
A-Entertainment Weekly

A"Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service.A"
A-The Christ...