Author: Bill Bryson
Translator: Sang-eun Park
Publisher: Book21
308 pages | 225*152mm
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About This Book
Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the
bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major
contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and
humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost
hear the tinny echo: "I wanna go home, I miss my wife."
Happily, I'm a Stranger Here Myself unleashes a new Bryson, more
contemplative and less likely to toss daggers. After two decades in
England, he's relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this collection
(drawn from dispatches for London's Night & Day magazine), he's writing
from home, in close proximity to wife and family. We find a happy
marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New
England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic
perspective of one who's stepped out of the American mainstream and come
back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.S. culture,
capturing its absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult
of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained
from pillows and beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he
writes, "four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by
their bedding."
The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns
about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving--when the
only goal is to "get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach
ball" and be grateful. And grateful we are that the previously
peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.S., turning his eye to this
land--while living at home and near his wife. Under her benevolent
influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic
stabs. --Melissa Rossi
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