Out of the loud hound of darkness
Subtitle: a dictionarrative
By: Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: English language -- Usage -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: Through this narrative, with its brigands, coiffeur, Count Ghastly, moguls, alchemical queen, courtesan, contrary cartographer, and cross-dressing cowboys, Gordon illuminates the mysteries of usage, speeding the reader to expertise with such confusions as decry/descry, fatal/fateful, displace/misplace, precipitate/precipitous, and masterful/masterly.

A companion lexicon, which includes anomie, farouche, quidnunc, internecine, obloquy, fatidic, and noetic, continues the tales and intrepid trek, all the while treating war, power, and celebrity cults with satirical wit and insight. With Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness Gordon lures you into the intricacies and pleasures of language through a brooding, hilarious fabric of fiction.
Notes: Includes index.