Language: English
20th Century 1971- Anecdotes Autobiography Bill Bill - Anecdotes Biography Biography & Autobiography Bryson Customs & Traditions Description and travel Fiction Form General History Humor Humour Literary Social Science Social life and customs Travel Travel writing Travelers USA United States United States - 20th Century United States - Description and travel - Anecdotes United States - Social life and customs - 1971- - Anecdotes Writing
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: Jan 1, 1998
Description:
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF *ONE SUMMER *
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.
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