Title Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen / by Mary Norris.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019.
	©2019

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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	LP BIO NORRIS	Check Shelf

Edition	Large print edition.
Description	299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rda
Series	Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
	Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Contents	Alpha to Omega -- A is for Athena -- Dead or alive -- Demeter dearest -- A taste for tragedy -- Swimming with Aphrodite -- Acropolis now -- The sea! The sea!
Summary	"In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek.Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris's lifelong love affair with words and 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, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris's memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine--and more than a few Greek men--Greek to Me is the Comma Queen's fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.I"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Norris, Mary, 1952- -- Travel -- Greece.
	Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
	Americans -- Greece -- Biography.
	Greece -- Description and travel.
	Greek language -- Social aspects.
	Large type books.
	Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
	Greek language -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00947268
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
	Periodical editors. (OCoLC)fst01058064
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Large type books.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Autobiographies.
	Travel writing.
ISBN	9781432871444 (large print) (hardcover)
	1432871447 (large print) (hardcover)

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