I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Other Editions

• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years AwayRandom House Audio1999-05-04
• I'm a stranger here myselfBroadway Books1999-01-01
• I am a stranger here myselfBroadway Books1999-01-01
• Notes from a big countryThorndike Press1999-01-01
• I'm a stranger here myselfPaperbackBroadway Books2000-01-01
• I'm a Stranger Here MyselfPaperbackThorndike Press2000-08-01