by Lynne Truss · Profile Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781861979339
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«Talk to the Hand» is a humorous essay by Lynne Truss on the decline of courtesy, published by Profile Books in hardcover (214 pages, in English).
In this essay, Lynne Truss denounces the deterioration of courtesy in everyday life and reflects on how rudeness has become normalized. The author reviews with humor and indignation cases such as calls to customer service lines and bad manners in public spaces, and champions civility against bad behavior.
The full title is «Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door)». Published in 2005.
For those seeking an entertaining read on social customs, in the vein of «Eats, Shoots & Leaves».
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.
