Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Cutting a Dash) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Lynne Truss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2004

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves." So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death. This is the zero tolerance guide.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks (April 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0563525967
• ISBN-13: 978-0563525967
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,612,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.