The Lost Continent [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bryson, Bill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385258623 ISBN 13: 9780385258623

Casa editrice: Black Swan, 1999

Riassunto

""I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."" And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

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Recensione:

"Bryson is one of the funniest travel writers in the business." --The Globe and Mail

Descrizione del libro:

Bill Bryson's very first travel book, a sidesplittingly funny road trip around America.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Black Swan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385258623
• ISBN 13: 9780385258623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352