Description: The country folk say "howdy-do" but here in town, it's "yo"; they'll say it in the country too in twenty years or so. Rolling Stone magazine has called songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields "the Cole Porter of his generation"; O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as "the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker's." Together they have crafted a witty book in celebration of two-letter words, focusing on the 101 such words that count in Scrabble. Featuring four-line poems by Merritt and colour illustrations by Chast, 101 Two-Letter Words covers familiar words (go, hi, no, ox) as well as obscure ones (ka, oe, qi, xu). With dark wit and clever wordplay, it will delight, not just Scrabble players and crossword puzzle fanatics, but anyone in thrall to the weirdest corners of the English language. With the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt has written, produced, and recorded ten albums, including 69 Love Songs, which was named one of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Merritt has performed as part of Lincoln Center's "American Songwriters" series and at BAM's "Next Wave of Song," and he has composed the score for the Academy Award-nominated film Pieces of April and for Eban and Charley.
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EAN: 9780393240191
UPC: 9780393240191
ISBN: 9780393240191
MPN: N/A
Book Title: 101 Two Letter Words
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Topic: Form / Limericks & Verse, General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2014
Illustrator: Chast, Roz, Yes
Genre: Humor
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.3 in
Author: Stephin Merritt
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
