Description: Now available for the first time in trade paperback, this classic work is sure to appeal to a whole new audience of language lovers--and loathers: anyone who has ever fumbled for the proper word or punctuation mark.
Brief description:
Karen Elizabeth Gordon is the author of the classic and comic reference books The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas. Her wanderlusting fiction includes The Ravenous Muse, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, and Paris Out of Hand. She lives in Berkeley, California and Paris.
Review Quotes: "Gordon manages to make the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, and semicolon sound friendly instead of forbidding."