Intoxerated - Couverture souple

Dickson, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1612191436 ISBN 13 : 9781612191430

Editeur : Melville House, 2012

Synopsis

A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk

A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning....With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned artist Brian Rea.

Dickson, who holds the Guiness World Record for collecting the most words for being, er, not sober, not only provides a dictionary of those words, but reveals why there are so many synonyms for being "drunk," and how he came to collect more of them than anyone else.

The terms are annotated, too, and lushly illustrated, explaining the twist and turns of a language that has thousands of ways to say the same thing. How, for example, does a word like "blotto" go from the lips of P.G. Wodehouse, into the writings of Edmund Wilson, before landing with Otto from The Simpson's ("My name is Otto, I like to get blotto").

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Dickson is the author of more than 45 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball, and 20th century history. His most recent titles include The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, and Slang: A Topical Dictionary of Americanisms.

Brian Rea produces drawings and paintings for magazines, murals, fashion and film projects around the world. His work has been exhibited in Paris, New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, and Barcelona at the Fundacio Joan Miro.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melville House
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612191436
• ISBN 13: 9781612191430
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Rea Brian
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible