Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0380727501 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0380727501 Global Overview for this book
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From the back cover: "After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made In America - decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear the my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.
Veering fromt he ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes From a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys tht true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile."
From the back cover: "After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made In America - decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear the my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.
Veering fromt he ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes From a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys tht true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile."
