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The Book Of Nonexistent Words: A Wondrous Collection of New Words and Their Origin Stories, from Cycling in Antarctica to Cooking with Leonardo da Vinci

Author: Stefano Massini.

The Book Of Nonexistent Words: A Wondrous Collection of New Words and Their Origin Stories, from Cycling in Antarctica to Cooking with Leonardo da Vinci

Author: Stefano Massini.

$23.99 $2.99
Item #: D23757
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780063004788
Frustrated that there just isn't a word for everything, the author of the Tony Award-winning play The Lehman Trilogy took it upon himself to coin some new ones, and the results collected here are delightful. Every chapter in this amusingly illustrated book mentions a new word derived from one of his entertaining stories about a real person, from Louis XIV to... More
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Frustrated that there just isn't a word for everything, the author of the Tony Award-winning play The Lehman Trilogy took it upon himself to coin some new ones, and the results collected here are delightful. Every chapter in this amusingly illustrated book mentions a new word derived from one of his entertaining stories about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster, with some of our favorites being "hearstian," "nazinate," "questic," "rosabellian," and "telegramic."


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