英文原版 Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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作者Mary Norris
出版社W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN9780393352146
出版时间2015-04
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上书时间2022-02-09
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作为纽约客审读室的老前辈，Mary Norris的这本著作从语法的角度向读者展示了英文行文的魅力。从错误的拼写到狄更斯的专著，从标点的使用到“辛普森家族”中台词的巧妙，而身处纽约客最核心部门的Mary，也有了近距离审视曾为这个老牌杂志撰稿的几位国宝级作家文字的机会，如乔治·桑德斯的怪异、菲利普·罗斯的深邃以及宝林·凯尔的直率都是上个世纪纽约最为嘹亮的声音，而破译这些声音密码的人，就是这位名为Mary Norris的标点女王。
“Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off.” ―Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker'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.
Between You & Me 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 The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, 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 Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders.
Readers―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."
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Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in 1978. Originally from Cleveland, she now lives in New York.
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“Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is…like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules.” (Sarah Lyall - New York Times)
“[P]ure porn for word nerds.” (Allan Fallow - Washington Post)
“Mary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language that’s contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that it’s easy to forget you’re learning things.” (People)
“Wonderfully confiding.” (Miriam Krule - Slate)
“[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language.” (Megan O'Grady - Vogue)
“Funny and endearing.” (Joanna Connors - Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.” (Steve Weinberg - Houston Chronicle)
“Smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating.” (Ian Frazier)
“Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.” (Adam Gopnik)
“Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.” (Marilyn Johnson)
“This is as entertaining as grammar can be. Very very. Read it and savor it.” (Garrison Keillor)
“Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.” (John McPhee, in The New Yorker)
“Destined to become an instant classic…. It’s hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris.” (Christian Science Monitor)
Product Details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 4, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393352145
ISBN-13: 978-0393352146
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
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