02434cam a2200469 i 4500 612753288 TxAuBib 20221214120000.0 211006t20222020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781984820747 paperback 1984820745 paperback (OCoLC)1273480699 TxAuBib rda Williams, Pip, author. The Dictionary of Lost Words [BOOK PAPERBACK] : a Novel / Pip Williams. 2022 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition. New York : Ballantine, 2022. ©2020. xiv, 388 pages : map ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes book club guide. Reese's Book Club -- cover. "Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2020"--Title page verso. "Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle. He'd tell me what pile to put it on and sometimes he'd pause, cover my hand with his, and guide my finger up and down and around the letters, sounding them into my ear. He'd say the word, and I would echo it, then he'd tell me what it meant"-- Provided by publisher. 20221214. Oxford English dictionary http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85201132 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Fiction. New English dictionary on historical principles http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95002678 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Fiction. Lexicographers Fiction. Language and culture Fiction. Women Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Encyclopedias and dictionaries Fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Oxford (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. TXPOT