The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue by Wendy Lesser

The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue

Wendy Lesser

241 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction essays informative reflective slow-paced
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Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan beli...

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