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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Bill Bryson
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Numéro de l'objet eBay :196256216061
Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780553456509
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Humor
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Form / Parodies
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Product Information
The master humorist 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 am confronted with an image that brings to mind a lemon meringue pie with ears"), I'm a Stranger Here Myself chronicles the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to our hardware-store lingo, tax-return instructions, and vulnerability to home injury ("statistically in New Hampshire I am far more likely to be hurt by my ceiling or underpants than by a stranger"). Along the way Bill Bryson also reveals his rules for life (#1: It is not permitted to be both slow and stupid. You must choose one or the other); delivers the commencement address to a local high school ("I've learned that if you touch a surface to see if it's hot, it will be"); and manages to make friends with a skunk. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553456504
ISBN-13
9780553456509
eBay Product ID (ePID)
724944
Product Key Features
Book Title
I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Form / Parodies
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Dimensions
Item Length
6.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Abridged Edition
Reviews
Praise ForA Walk In The Woods: "[Bryson is] great company from the start...equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley and...Dave Barry." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] terribly misguided and terribly funny tale of adventure....The yarn is choke-on-your-coffee funny." --Washington Post "A Walk In The Woodsis an almost perfect travel book." --Boston Globe "Nobody has written anything like this book. It's funny--so funny I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen." --Providence Journal-Bulletin "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." --Chicago Sun-Times From the Hardcover edition., Praise For A Walk In The Woods : "[Bryson is] great company from the start...equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley and...Dave Barry." -- The New York Times Book Review "[A] terribly misguided and terribly funny tale of adventure....The yarn is choke-on-your-coffee funny." -- Washington Post " A Walk In The Woods is an almost perfect travel book." -- Boston Globe "Nobody has written anything like this book. It's funny--so funny I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen." -- Providence Journal-Bulletin "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." -- Chicago Sun-Times, Praise For A Walk In The Woods : "[Bryson is] great company from the start...equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley and...Dave Barry." -- The New York Times Book Review "[A] terribly misguided and terribly funny tale of adventure....The yarn is choke-on-your-coffee funny." -- Washington Post " A Walk In The Woods is an almost perfect travel book." -- Boston Globe "Nobody has written anything like this book. It's funny--so funny I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen." -- Providence Journal-Bulletin "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." -- Chicago Sun-Times From the Hardcover edition., Praise For A Walk In The Woods: "[Bryson is] great company from the start...equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley and...Dave Barry." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] terribly misguided and terribly funny tale of adventure....The yarn is choke-on-your-coffee funny." --Washington Post "A Walk In The Woods is an almost perfect travel book." --Boston Globe "Nobody has written anything like this book. It's funny--so funny I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen." --Providence Journal-Bulletin "Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud." --Chicago Sun-Times From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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