I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (Thorndike Large Print General Series) - Softcover

Bryson, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786220031 ISBN 13: 9780786220038

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland

About this title

Review

" 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

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786220031
• ISBN 13: 9780786220038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458