02190cam a2200505 i 4500 1219464865 TxAuBib 20240406120000.0 181221s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018060805 9780374280116 0374280118 (OCoLC)1080249435 TxAuBib rda Schine, Cathleen, author. The grammarians / Cathleen Schine. First edition. New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. ©2019. 258 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition. A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language by the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary. 20240406. Identical twins Fiction. Identical twins Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Grammarians Fiction. Grammarians Fiction. Women journalists Fiction. Women poets Fiction. Women poets Fiction. Twins Fiction. Families Fiction. Distribution of decedents' estates Fiction. Distribution of decedents' estates Fiction. Twins. Sœurs Romans, nouvelles, etc. Femmes journalistes Romans, nouvelles, etc. Poétesses Romans, nouvelles, etc. Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. Domestic fiction.