The Resource I'm a Stranger Here Myself
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
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The item I'm a Stranger Here Myself represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item I'm a Stranger Here Myself represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.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
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780767931182
- Label
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- Title
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Bryson
- Title variation
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- I am a stranger here myself
- Im a stranger here myself
- Title variation remainder
- notes on returning to America after twenty years away
- Subject
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- trueUnited States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
- trueBryson, Bill -- Anecdotes
- trueHumor writing -- Classic humorists
- Biography & Autobiography
- trueTravel Writing -- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Anecdotes
- Nonfiction
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- trueNational characteristics, American
- trueBryson, Bill -- Travel -- United States
- Humor (Nonfiction)
- trueEssays
- trueSmall town life
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.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
- Summary
- 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, hardware stores, and other topics
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
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- 175387
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Bryson, Bill
- Dewey number
- 973.92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Biography & Autobiography
- Essays
- Nonfiction
- Humor (Nonfiction)
- Target audience
- adult
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- notes on returning to America after twenty years away
- Label
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:dbd92ed7-ecda-4e77-b393-b96b21cfb653
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- Isbn
- 9780767931182
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- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:dbd92ed7-ecda-4e77-b393-b96b21cfb653
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9780767931182
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- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- Biography & Autobiography
- trueBryson, Bill -- Anecdotes
- trueBryson, Bill -- Travel -- United States
- trueEssays
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- trueHumor writing -- Classic humorists
- trueMoving to a new country
- trueNational characteristics, American
- Nonfiction
- trueSmall town life
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- trueUnited States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Anecdotes
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