{"product_id":"between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen","title":"Between You \u0026 Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBetween You \u0026amp; Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMary Norris\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393240184\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Norris has spent more than three decades in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBetween You \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage--comma faults, danglers, \"who\" vs. \"whom,\" \"that\" vs. \"which,\" compound words, gender-neutral language--and her clear explanations of how to handle them. Down-to-earth and always open-minded, she draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from \u003cem\u003eThe Honeymooners\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders--and writers--will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell-check. As Norris writes, \"The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Between You \u0026 Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen | Mary Norris | Hardcover | 9780393240184 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1750187","offer_id":48882255397016,"sku":"1750187","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51TQU28EU7L.jpg?v=1776442507","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/between-you-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}