I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson holds a well received rating of 3.89 out of 5, based on 44.6K reader ratings. First published in 1998. The book spans 304 pages.
About I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
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.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| Published | 1998 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Genres | Non-Fiction, Travel, Biography & Memoir, Biography & Memoir |
| Average Rating | 3.89 / 5.00 |
| Total Ratings | 44,610 |
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away is categorized as Non-Fiction, Travel, Biography & Memoir, Biography & Memoir. Its primary genre classification is Biography & Memoir.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away has 304 pages.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away was written by Bill Bryson. It was first published in 1998.
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The ISBN-13 for I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away is 9780767903820.0.
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