by Lynne Truss · The Times · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007890590
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«Talk to the Hand» is Lynne Truss's humorous essay, published by The Times in 2010 in paperback, in English.
In this essay, Lynne Truss reflects with irony on bad manners and lack of courtesy in today's life. The book's subtitle promises six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door, and the author develops them by observing everyday behaviors and forms of address that have changed in the modern world.
Full subtitle: '#?*! The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door'. The cover cites Lynne Truss as author of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves'.
For readers looking for an ironic essay on manners and daily coexistence.
Lynne Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She champions correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented.
