Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries Condition:Very Good Young Satyavati must walk on

Young Satyavati must walk on thorns to reach her destiny in a world ruled by men

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction

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whose magic powers are strictly confined to pen and paper) and Boaz Lavie

Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize

Word by Word : The Secret Life of Dictionaries Condition:Very Good Young Satyavati must walk onBrimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define, to the knotty questions of