I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away [Lingua Inglese]: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years - Rilegato

Bryson, Bill

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ISBN 10: 0767903811 ISBN 13: 9780767903813

Casa editrice: Broadway Books, 1999

Riassunto

The humorist-author of A Walk in the Woods describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his quirky, sometimes disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, barbers, hardware stores, and more. Tour.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.

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umorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.

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 three 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. From motels ("one of those things--airline food is another--that I get excited about and should know better") to careless barbers ("in the mirror I

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Broadway Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0767903811
• ISBN 13: 9780767903813
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile