title: The Borzoi Handbook for Writers/the Borzoi Practice Book for Writers
author: Frederick Crews
description: Designed as an easy-to-use, non-jargon-bound reference for writers, the BORZOI features elegant, straightforward language suggestions and advice as it avoids complex grammatical explanations. The handbook is accompanied by a free Practice book that provides exercises based in real discourse units.
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  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK  
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 by David Shields
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a
  division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of
  Canada, Limited, Toronto.
  
  
  [www.aaknopf.com](http://www.aaknopf.com)
  
  
  Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random
  House, Inc.
  
  
  [This page](Shie_9780307961532_epub_ack_r1.htm#page209) constitutes an
  extension of this page.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Shields, David, 1956–  
  How literature saved my life / by David Shields. —1st ed.  
  p. cm.  
  “This is a Borzoi book.”  
  eISBN: 978-0-307-96153-2  
  1\. Shields, David, 1956—–Books and reading.  
  2\. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)  
  3\. Criticism. I. Title.
  
  
  PS3569.H4834Z469 2013
  
  
  813′.54—dc23  
  [B] 2012036686