Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.

Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 2,249 ratings · 271 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, Nick Bantock 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1996	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Rikki Ducornet (Illustrator) 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1998	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Dugald Stermer (Illustrator), Fearn Cutler (Designed by) 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1996	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1983	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intimate Apparel 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1989	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

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