Pilcrow

Adam Mars-Jones

Translated by Richard Cunningham earliest edition we have, 2008 JC Lattès, 2010 paperback 595 pages

John Cromer — book 1

‘I’m not sure that I can claim to have taken my place in the human alphabet, even as its honorary twenty-seventh letter. I’m more like a specialised piece of punctuation, a cedilla, umlaut or pilcrow, hard to track down on the keyboard of a computer or typewriter. Pilcrow is the prettiest of the bunch, assessed purely as a word. And at least it stands on its own. It doesn’t perch or dangle. Pilcrow it is.’ That’s th...

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Pilcrow edition · 2011 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571284016
Pied-de-Mouche paperback · 2010 · JC Lattès · 595 pages · 9782709630399
Pilcrow edition · 2009 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 544 pages · 9780571217045
Pilcrow hardcover · 2008 · Faber & Faber · 525 pages · 9780571217038

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