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I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10076790382X
ISBN-139780767903820
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038424218
Product Key Features
Book TitleI'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicForm / Anecdotes & Quotations, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Customs & Traditions, United States / General, Form / Essays
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
AuthorBill Bryson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-018074
Reviews"Painfully funny and genuinely insightful...Bryson has never been wittier or more endearing." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully droll...Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense." -- The Wall Street Journal "Bill Bryson makes writing look too easy." -- USA Today "A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes about today's America in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny." -- San Francisco Examiner "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." -- Chicago Sun-Times, "Painfully funny and genuinely insightful...Bryson has never been wittier or more endearing." --San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully droll...Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense." --The Wall Street Journal "Bill Bryson makes writing look too easy." --USA Today "A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes about today's America in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny." --San Francisco Examiner "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." --Chicago Sun-Times
SynopsisA 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.
LC Classification NumberE169.12
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- Oct 31, 2017
Better than a TV Sitcom Laugh Track
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time! Great introspective on the "American Way" from someone who grew up in the U.S., lived and worked in England for 20 years, and then returned to live in a New England town with his English wife and their children. The chapters (which are relatively short) in this book are the weekly articles he wrote for the newspaper back in England for which he worked as a journalist.while there. They were supposed to be a "view of what it was like to be an born-and-raised American returning home after being gone for 20 years." While some chapters are more sobering than others, they are all humorous and will tickle your funny bone in ways you never knew it could be. Definitely a must-read book. (And, no, this is not a paid advertisement--just a fan's honest--albeit biased--viewpoint.)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 10, 2018
Moving back to America after 20 years abroad.
Bill Bryson at his best.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 01, 2019
great!
My husband wanted this book. He loves Bill Bryson.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Mar 20, 2020
Impressed
Great reads and from purchase to receiving was excellentVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
