I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

Bill Bryson

ISBN 10: 076790382X / ISBN 13: 9780767903820

Published by Broadway Books, 2000

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2000. 1st Pbk. Ed. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780767903820

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076790382X
• ISBN 13: 9780767903820
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

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 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. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.

About the Author

Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.