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I'm a stranger here myself notes on returning to America after 20 years away

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  • "SUMMARY: After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children. They were greated by a new-and-improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, the wonder of 1-800- numbers, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item."
  • "Author chronicles the quirkest aspects of life in America after twenty years living in Britain."
  • "The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores."
  • "The author guides us on an affectionate, funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities after a 20-year absence in Britain."
  • "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 hot-lines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. [This book] 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"

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  • "I'm a stranger here myself : notes on returning to American after twenty years away"
  • "I'm a stranger here myself [notes on returning to America after twenty years away]"

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