Awards
- Short-listed for ABA Indies Choice Book Award 2016
- Short-listed for Thurber Prize for American Humor 2016
- Shortlisted for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 2016.
- Winner of ABA Indies Choice Book Award 2017
- Winner of Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 2017
- Winner of Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 2017.
Overview
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker’s grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris’s laugh-out-loud exhortations about exclamation marks and emoticons, comma faults and swear words; her memorable exchanges about usage with writers such as Ian Frazier, Pauline Kael, Philip Roth and George Saunders; and her loving meditations on the most important tools of the trade. Readers and writers will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise new friend in love with language.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.193kg
ISBN: 9780393352146
ISBN 10: 0393352145
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 April 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
...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
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
Author Information
Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York.
