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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire:a Handbook Of Grammar For the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
[Hardback - 1993]
karen elizabeth gordon
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Category: Language
Additional Category: Education - Humour
Publisher: Pantheon | ISBN: 9780679418603 | Pages: 192
Shipping Weight: .533 | Dimensions: 7.6 x .83 x 9.53 inches

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Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.fromhttp://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/...

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