- Published: 30 November 2017
- ISBN: 9781787330238
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $49.99
Odd Job Man
Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer
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- Published: 30 November 2017
- ISBN: 9781787330238
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $49.99
[Green's] kaleidoscopic memoir charting three decades exploring our mother tongue's more exotic margins is vigorous, gonzoid, learned and entertaining.
David Profumo, Literary Review
In his relentless campaign to drag slang out of the sewer and brothel, and into the drawing-room and academy, Green has no rival. He is the Dr Johnson of slang, its Putin, its Mr Toad, its Dickens.
Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
This memoir of a life spent exploring the grubby margins of the English language reveals plenty about both that language and Green himself.
Spectator
[A] rollicking memoir.
Iain Finlayson, Saga
Unusual… Moving… Magnificent.
Sam Leith, Guardian