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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

By: Bill Bryson
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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.©1999 Bill Bryson; (P)1999 Random House, Inc. Art & Literature Authors Biographies & Memoirs Travel Writing & Commentary Celebrity Funny Witty

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Praise For A Walk In The Woods:

"[Bryson is] great company from the start...equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley and...Dave Barry."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] terribly misguided and terribly funny tale of adventure....The yarn is choke-on-your-coffee funny."
--Washington Post

"A Walk In The Woods is an almost perfect travel book."
--Boston Globe

"Nobody has written anything like this book. It's funny--so funny I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen."
--Providence Journal-Bulletin

"Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud."
--Chicago Sun-Times
Humorous Observations • Insightful Commentary • Wonderful Narrator • Engaging Anecdotes • Cultural Comparisons

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I enjoyed a very hardy laugh, and only wish the book had been longer. Bryson's hallmark humour is one I look forward to enjoying time and time again.

I'm a stranger here myself

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I am an American expat, having lived over seas for 25 years. Loved it but wanted more.....at least another 5 chapters

Much too short

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No matter how many times I listen to any of Bill Bryson's audiobooks, I am sure to have hours of laughter,insights, learning, and vicarious travel!

Bill B

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I enjoyed this audio book, but it is not one of my favorites of Bill's. It was a pleasant listen, just not riveting.

OK but not his best

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As always, Bill Bryson has me often laughing aloud as I’m walking down the street listening to him, sometimes feeling nostalgic or pained or deeply touched, and always engaged—fully captivated in his world. An incredible read!

Witty and thoroughly engaging top to bottom!

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