Name: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
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Author: Bryson, Bill
ISBN: 9780767903820

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bill Bryson

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

076790382X

ISBN13

9780767903820

Synopsis "I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away "

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 aliens--as he later put it, it was clear my people needed me). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm 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 man's 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.

Bill Bryson

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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He started a Journalism career in the United States, but interrupted it to travel through Europe. In 1977, he settled in North Yorkshire, England, where he lived for two decades and worked as a journalist. Although he has also been involved in teaching (he was the chancellor of Durham University), he currently dedicates himself mainly to writing. He is the author, among other bestsellers, of Shakespeare, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, A Walk in the Woods, and One Summer: America, 1927 and Down Under.

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