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I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
I'm a Stranger Here Myself Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Author: Bill Bryson
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 impr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965002004
ISBN-10: 0965002004
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 288
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Broadway Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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I write this as a big Bill Bryson fan who considers his worst to be more entertaining than most writers' best. That having been said, this is a compendium of short articles he wrote for a periodical upon returning to America after decades in England. They are breezy and amusing, but lack the thoughfulness and heft of his full-length books. This is just an appetizer - my advice to new Bryson readers is to go for the full meal, e.g., A Walk in the Woods, In A Sunburned Country, almost any of them - they're all wonderful, funny and full of amazing facts and insights.
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lilyfysche avatar reviewed I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away on + 6 more book reviews
An absolute must for those familiar with English culture living in America. I have had many a good chuckle re-living familiar episodes via Bryson's hilariously funny anecdotes. No Anglo-American is 'whole' without one of these in their library.
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You will truly laugh out loud!


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