Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

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.

Author: Mary Norris
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393357868
Language: English