Notes From A Big Country

Notes From A Big CountryCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781784161842 Format: B format paperback Year: 2016 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Pages: 384 Description: 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781784161842
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2016
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Pages: 384


Description:
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.