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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

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    About I’m a Stranger Here Myself

    A 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.

    About I’m a Stranger Here Myself

    A 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.

    About I’m a Stranger Here Myself

    A 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.

    About I’m a Stranger Here Myself

    A 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.

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    About Bill Bryson

    BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). He was… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). He was… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). He was… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). He was… More about Bill Bryson

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Humor | Travel Writing

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Crown
    Jun 06, 2000 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780767903820

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Humor | Travel Writing

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Crown
    May 13, 2008 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780767931182

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Humor | Travel Writing | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 02, 2012 | 557 Minutes | ISBN 9780385367660

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Humor | Travel Writing | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $14.98
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jul 05, 2000 | 355 Minutes | ISBN 9780553750317

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    Praise

    "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

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