Im a Stranger Here Myself Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Brand: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Product Description
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliensas he later put it it was clear my people needed me. They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes twentyfourhour dentalfloss hotlines and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark Im a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one mans attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away. show more
Condition : New
Author : Bill Bryson
Weight : 335
Publisher : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Language : English
EAN : 9780767903820
ISBN10 : 076790382X
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 19990420
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 132 X 201 X 16mm