(Ebook pdf) The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense
·•●- Daniel Menaker ·•●-
| #104017 in Books | 2016-10-18 | 2016-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.00 x.92 x5.00l,.0 | File Name: 054480063X | 256 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Only meh|By Bake Woman|I always have high hopes for anything Roz Chast, but this book was a disappointment. Her drawings, of course, are wonderful, but there aren't that many of them. Skimming through the entries, there are definitely some droll malaprops, but I'm guessing that unless you are an English major, you may find that the author gives you way more info about these mi||
"A clever book... Leavened by famously jittery drawings from Roz Chast, The African Svelte cleverly educes the 'literally poetic justice' of 'eeking out a living' or disguising your terrorist intent by 'wearing a baklava.'"
Inspired by his tenure at The New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes with commentary by the author, illustrations by Roz Chast, and a foreword from Billy Collins.
During his time at The New Yorker, Daniel Menaker happened across a superb spelling mistake: “The zebras were grazing on the African svelte." Fascinated by the idea of... [PDF.px04] The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense Rating: 4.70 (452 Votes)
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