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

Book Name: I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway Books
Year: 2008
Pages: 306
Language: English
File size: 3368 KB
File format: PDF

I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away Pdf Book Description:

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back into the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they were abducted by aliens–as he put it,”it was clear that my people needed me”). They were greeted with a brand new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice isn’t a luxury thing.

Delivering the brilliant comic musings which are a Bryson hallmark, I’m a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of the birth. The outcome is a book full of hysterical scenes of one man’s attempt to reacquaint himself with his own nation, but it’s also a lengthy if occasionally bemused love letter to the homeland he’s returned to after twenty decades away.