I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away Paperback - 2000
by Bill Bryson
Now in paperback comes the affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities from a master humorist. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are his hallmark, Bryson, who recently returned to the U.S. after living abroad for 20 years, proves that there's truly no place like home, especially if it's in America.
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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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- Title I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author Bill Bryson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-06-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780767903820 / 076790382X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99018074
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 07/09/2000, Page 32
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