Title:
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NOTES FROM A BIG COUNTRY
JOURNEY INTO THE AMERICAN DREAM |
By: |
Bill Bryson |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
140909572X |
ISBN 13: |
9781409095729 |
Publisher: |
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD |
Pub. date: |
2 March, 2010 |
Series: |
Bryson |
Pages: |
384 |
Description: |
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, the author just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. This collection features comic pieces culled from his humorous regular column in the "Mail on Sunday". |
Synopsis: |
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Transworld Digital |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |