Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream.
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Series
- Bryson
- Language
- english
- Release date
- March 24, 2016
- ISBN
- 9781784161842
- GTIN
- 9781784161842
- Weight, g
- 262
About
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.