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From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves

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"...delightful and thought-provoking..." -- The Bookseller
"...Between You & Me, has an old New Yorker charm." -- The Times Literary Supplement
"Norris is warm, knowledgable and unapologetically fussy...The pleasure of Between You & Me boils down to a willingness to spend 200 tightly edited pages in Mary Norris's good-natured, wise company." -- The Guardian
"...a charming, chatty, discursive, style guide…" -- Literary Review
"Mary Norris’ Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (W. W. Norton) delighted me with its playful and thought-provoking journey through pronouns, hyphens, semicolons and much more that matters in life." -- Books 2015, Louise O. Fresco, president, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands - Times Higher Education
"Norris’ self-deprecating and hilarious confessional dives deep and comes up with a bounty of pearls..." -- Books of 2015, Catherine Clinton, Denman chair of American history, University of Texas, San Antonio, and international research professor, Queen’s University Belfast - Times Higher Education

Between You Me

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    A Hardback by Mary Norris

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 5 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780393240184
      978-0393240184
      ISBN-10 0393240185
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves

      Trade Review
      "...delightful and thought-provoking..." -- The Bookseller
      "...Between You & Me, has an old New Yorker charm." -- The Times Literary Supplement
      "Norris is warm, knowledgable and unapologetically fussy...The pleasure of Between You & Me boils down to a willingness to spend 200 tightly edited pages in Mary Norris's good-natured, wise company." -- The Guardian
      "...a charming, chatty, discursive, style guide…" -- Literary Review
      "Mary Norris’ Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (W. W. Norton) delighted me with its playful and thought-provoking journey through pronouns, hyphens, semicolons and much more that matters in life." -- Books 2015, Louise O. Fresco, president, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands - Times Higher Education
      "Norris’ self-deprecating and hilarious confessional dives deep and comes up with a bounty of pearls..." -- Books of 2015, Catherine Clinton, Denman chair of American history, University of Texas, San Antonio, and international research professor, Queen’s University Belfast - Times Higher Education

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