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Bryson, Bill

 
9780375434310: At Home (Random House Large Print)
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ISBN 10: 0375434313 ISBN 13: 9780375434310
Editorial: Random House Large Print, 2010

Sinopsis

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has fig­ured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposi­tion imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency makeAt Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

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Acerca del autor

BILL BRYSON’s books include A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself,In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Book of Troublesome Words, A Short History of Nearly Everything(which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, andBryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.

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Editorial
Random House Large Print
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375434313
ISBN 13 
9780375434310
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Número de páginas
768
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780767919395: Bill Bryson: At Home. A Short History of Private Life.

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0767919394 ISBN 13:  9780767919395
Editorial: Ballantine Books, 2011
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