{"product_id":"the-grammarians-9781250758231","title":"The Grammarians","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grammarians\u003c\/i\u003e are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret \"twin\" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: \u003ci\u003eMerriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, \u003ci\u003eThe Grammarians\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250758231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Cathleen Schine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38027483545781,"sku":"9781250758231","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0e50a697-cf38-4933-a286-c6e33291b1ac.jpg?v=1609192958","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-grammarians-9781250758231","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}