The English American
Title | The English American PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Larkin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2008-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416565663 |
When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. In many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast, knows how to make a proper cup of tea, has attended a posh English boarding school, and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family. Yet Pippa -- creative, disheveled, and impulsive to the core -- has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly coiffed sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish dancing, gardening, and watching cricket. When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother, an untidy, artistic, free-spirited redhead, and her birth father, a charismatic (and politically involved) businessman in Washington, D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same time, she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her "self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she? Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men, Pippa is plunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With an authentic adopted heroine at its center, Larkin's compulsively readable first novel unearths universal truths about love, identity, and family with wit, warmth, and heart.
The American Heritage Book Of English Usage
Title | The American Heritage Book Of English Usage PDF eBook |
Author | Editors of the American Heritage Di |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1996-09-09 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780547563213 |
For the first time, the editors of the acclaimed American Heritage(R) Dictionary have applied their efforts to word usage as its own subject. The result is this practical guide that includes chapters on grammar, style, diction, gender, social groups, pronunciation, word formation, science terms, and a subject and a word index.
Speaking American
Title | Speaking American PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Bailey |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-01-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019517934X |
Investigates the history and continuing evolution of American English, from the 16th century to the present, to celebrate the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of our language. By the author of Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language.
British or American English?
Title | British or American English? PDF eBook |
Author | John Algeo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 13 |
Release | 2006-08-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139457322 |
Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for those with no prior knowledge of linguistics, it shows how these grammatical differences are linked mainly to particular words, and provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use.
American and British English
Title | American and British English PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107088860 |
Is British English becoming more like American English? Paul Baker tracks the changes, trends and distinctions of both languages to answer this question.
Speak Business English Like an American
Title | Speak Business English Like an American PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Gillett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
CD and book designed to teach idioms and expressions used in the American business world.
Poptropica English
Title | Poptropica English PDF eBook |
Author | José Luis Morales |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9781292091037 |
Welcome to Poptropica English, a six level primary English series that engages young learners like never before. The unique combination of beautiful in-class materials and fun-filled online activities, songs and games, creates a world of excitement and adventure that kids won't want to leave.