I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

Bryson, Bill

 
9780767903813: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0767903811 ISBN 13: 9780767903813
Editorial: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del, 1999

Sinopsis

The humorist-author of A Walk in the Woods describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his quirky, sometimes disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, barbers, hardware stores, and more. Tour.

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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.

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umorist 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

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Editorial
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0767903811
ISBN 13 
9780767903813
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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