The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities. 
How many times have words not been enough? 
How many complex feelings don’t have a corresponding noun that properly describes them? 
How many times has language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions? 
Award-winning author Stefano Massini, a master of expression,, made a discovery that shot new life into his writing practice. To his surprise he found that the ancient rules of language were not quite as restrictive as he had long envisioned them to be. With so many emotions and states of mind missing modern descriptors and definitions, Massini stumbled across a simple but artistry-altering idea. Instead of compromising honest expression through perfunctory verbiage, he decided language was, if anything, a flowing palette of colors he could use to paint all things. Words are meant to be invented. 
To reconfirm his belief in the magic of words, Massini returned to the wondrous mechanism that has fed dictionaries from time immemorial. If he could not find the precise word he wanted, he created one. In this delightful compendium, he introduces his personal vocabulary; every chapter mentions a new word that comes from a story about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster. 
The Book of Nonexistent Words is a beautifully illustrated collection of linguistic origin stories wrought from the mind of an internationally renowned storytelling icon. Massini effectively liberates our human capacity for using language creatively and shows how we can embrace storytelling to fine tune our way of being in the world. Massini encourages us to be imaginative; if the language in the dictionary cannot adequately match the reality of the here and now, we must create new words that ring true. 
Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

The Book of Nonexistent Words

Literature & Fiction

Massini, Stefano

Essays & Correspondence

HarperVia

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Di Donato, Robert

Clyde, Monica

Vansant, Jacqueline

McGraw-Hill.

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Foreign Language Study & Reference

Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill

This combined rhetoric/worktext is designed for basic skills writing courses that focus on the paragraph.  English Skills features John Langan's clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and assignments that reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.

English skills

Langan, John

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McGraw-Hill Companies

English Skills [paperback] Langan, John [Dec 01, 1988]

English Skills

John Langan

McGraw-Hill College

Used, Good Condition, Pages and Binding Intact. Kept in a Smoke Free Environment.

The McGraw-Hill Reader

College Writing Skills with Readings

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Corporate Finance

Business & Money

ROSS

Westerfield

Finance

McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)

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