Book Review: Mary Norris's new memoir recounts her lifelong love of Greek and Greece.
Readers of Mary Norris’s best-selling memoir cum practical style guide, “Between You and Me” , will be eager to get hold of the sequel, “Greek to Me.” In this book, Ms.
Norris revives her “comma queen” persona: part grammar maven, part wisecracking dame from Cleveland who has wandered into a Manhattan screwball comedy. This book, though, on her attraction to ancient Greek, the Greek alphabet, and then modern Greek and Greece and Greeks, is a darker, messier book—beach reading for classicists and philhellenes, perhaps, but with something more serious at stake. Aiming at times...
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