Greek to Me

NORRIS,MARY

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Author
NORRIS,MARY
Publish Date
04/01/2020
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
NORTON
Subtitle
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Number of Pages
240
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0393357864
ISBN-13
9780393357868
SKU
9780393357868

Description

“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” ―Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review
Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine―and more than a few Greek men.