The grammarians
(Book)
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Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SCHINE 2019
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FICTION SCHINE 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SCHINE 2019
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FICTION SCHINE 2019
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Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Schine, C. (2019). The grammarians (First edition.). Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schine, Cathleen. 2019. The Grammarians. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schine, Cathleen. The Grammarians Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Schine, Cathleen. The Grammarians First edition., Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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