{"product_id":"9781922268242","title":"Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen","description":"Author: Norris, Mary \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922268242 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2019 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 240 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 205mm x 137mm x 29mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Comma Queen returns with a fun, witty and wise romp through language and the crystalline Greek coast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her New York Times bestseller\u003ci\u003e Between You \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker's\u003c\/i\u003e celebrated copy department. In\u003ci\u003e Greek to Me\u003c\/i\u003e, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion- all things Greek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreek to Me\u003c\/i\u003e 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-\u003ci\u003eGreek to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the Comma Queen's fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667929194654,"sku":"UBD-9781922268242","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922268242.jpg?v=1751332905","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922268242","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}