After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recentlymoved back to the United States with his English wife and fourchildren (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americansbelieved they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "itwas clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new andimproved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hourdental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not aluxury item.
Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Brysonhallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimesdisconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is abook filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt toreacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extendedif at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned toafter twenty years away.
【作者简介】
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years helived in England, where he worked for the Times and theIndependent, and wrote for most major British and Americanpublications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here NorThere; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and bookson language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). Hisaccount of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk inthe Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. Helives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his fourchildren.
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