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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

2012 Day-to-Day Calendar

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation( )
Author: Truss, Lynne
ISBN:978-0-7893-2303-3
Publication Date:Sep 2011
Publisher:Universe Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.99
Book Description:

This word-lover and wordsmith’s calendar is based on the punctuation sensation Eats, Shoots & Leaves that hit #1 on best-seller lists and has sold more than 3 million hardcover copies worldwide. With such observations as “people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow,” Lynne Truss has made “the history of punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious” (John Walsh, The Independent). • The hardcover edition spent 45 weeks on the...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.716 x 13.97 x 4.572 cm
Book Weight:0.408 Kilograms
Author Biography
Truss, Lynne (Author)
Lynne Truss was born on May 31, 1955, in Kingston upon Thames, England. She is an English writer and journalist. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation was a best-seller in 2003.

Truss received a first-class honors degree in English Language and Literature from University College London in 1977. After graduation, she worked for the Radio Times as a sub-editor before moving to the Times Higher Education Supplement as the deputy literary editor in 1978. From 1986 to 1990, she was the literary editor of The Listener and was an arts and books reviewer for The Independent on Sunday before joining The Times in 1991. She currently reviews books for The Sunday Times. She has also written numerous books including Tennyson's Gift; Going Loco; Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation; and Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door.

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