books.google.com - The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Exercises_in_Style.html?id=3aPbGd3hkBAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareExercises in Style