This Is Me, Period.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation

By Philip Cowell

Book Overview

The elements of style like you've never seen them before Explore the personalities of the punctuation marks we use every day with this bold, typographic journey through grammar. Each chapter in This is Me, Period introduces one of the major pieces of punctuation and all of its idiosyncracies, including: The dashing em dash-- So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on The shouty exclamation The three dots of . . . (Don't forget the brackets) And even more As charming as it is educational, This is Me, Period helps you understand sentence structure in a novel way that keeps you turning the pages for more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525573550
• ISBN13: 9780525573555
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 6.6"