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Author: John Pollack
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Gotham Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.197kg
ISBN: 9781592406753
ISBN 10: 1592406750
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 April 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Punderful! <br> -Ben Schott, author of Schott's Original Miscellany <br><br> Anyone with an interest in language is going to find this book fascinating. <br> -David Crystal, author of How Language Works <br><br> With his compelling narrative style, Pollack unearths hard evidence that the noble pun is much more than a literary step-child or linguistic anomaly. And as a practitioner of the art and artifice of wordplay himself, John naturally dedicates a bit of spice to peppering and assaulting us with a few subtle zingers of his zone. <br> -Gary Hallock, producer of the O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships <br><br> In The Pun Also Rises , John Pollack stirs the brain and tickles the funny bone with rewording insights into why the pun is dramatically rising in our culture, and illuminates with dazzling whiz and witdom how the pun has made us who we are today. <br> -Richard Lederer, International Punster of the Year and author of Get Thee to a Punnery
A compelling exegesis on what puns are and why they matter. <br> - The Los Angeles Times <br><br> A fun, cogent argument in favor of a dubious, often-damned art. <br> - Kirkus Reviews <br><br> He tells us, with a clarity unusual for the subject, how the mind works... <br> -P.J. O'Rourke, The New York Times Book Review <br><br> The best books on language are the ones that encourage us to reexamine what we think we know, and The Pun Also Rises does exactly that. <br> - Boston Globe <br><br> Whether you are practicing punster, interested in language or just hungry to learn something on the beach this summer as you lie on the sand-which-is there (see what happens when you talk to this guy?), Pollack's book is fun and informative. <br> - Detroit Free Press
Whether you are practicing punster, interested in language or just hungry to learn something on the beach this summer as you lie on the sand-which-is there (see what happens when you talk to this guy?), Pollack's book is fun and informative. -- Detroit Free Press
Author Information
John Pollack, former presidential speechwriter, won the 1995 O. Henry World Championship Pun-Off. His previous books include Cork Boat and The World on a String- How to Become a Freelance Foreign Correspondent. He lives in New York City.
