1033 bed04c71-7f3f-48a7-a843-9866229a677b I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away Bill Bryson calibre (0.8.17) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2000-06-06T04:00:00+00:00 SUMMARY: 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. Random House, Inc. 9780767903820 eng General Literary Fiction History Biography & Autobiography Autobiography Social Science United States Biography Humor Travel Form Customs & Traditions Travel Writing USA Social life and customs Anecdotes Travelers 20th Century Bill Bryson Description and travel United States - Social life and customs - 1971- - Anecdotes United States - 20th Century 1971- Bill - Anecdotes United States - Description and travel - Anecdotes