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Written & audio book narrated by Bill Bryson - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (May 1999)

From San Francisco Chronicle:
"Bryson has never been wittier or more endearing than in these pages....Painfully funny and genuinely insightful."

From Elizabeth Gleick - The New York Times Book Review:
"...Bryson [has] found his shtick, and he's sticking to it....Bryson's America is often wonderful but bewildering in all its vast, commercialized contradictions....The saving grace...is that even when Bryson attempts to crack old chestnuts...he can be a genuinely funny fellow....pleasingly cranky…"

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 three 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.