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Notes From A Big Country
eBook - Journey into the American Dream, Bryson
ISBN/EAN: 9781409095729
Umbreit-Nr.: 6453450
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 384 S., 1.51 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 02.03.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>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<i>et al.</i>and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.</p><p>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.'</p><p>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.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>Bill Bryson</b>s bestselling travel books include<i>The Lost Continent</i>and<i>Notes from a Small Island</i>, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. Another travel book,<i>A Walk in the Woods,</i>has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. His new number one<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller is<i>The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island.</i></p><p>His acclaimed book on the history of science,<i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i>, won the Royal Societys Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Unions highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir<i>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid</i>. His last critically lauded bestsellers were<i>At Home: a Short History of Private Life</i>, and<i>One Summer: America 1927</i></p><p>Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.</p>
- Schlagzeile
- The phenomenal bestseller from the author of Notes From a Small Island.