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Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a native of Iowa returns from England to wander across America's heartland in search of the perfect small town, the result is a string of hilarious anecdotes and biting social commentary.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night and Day magazine, Bill Bryson firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here are nineteen months' worth of his popular columns about the strangest of phenomena -- the American way of life.Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the mind-boggling plethora of methods by which to shop, the exoticism...
Author
Publisher
BDD Audio
Pub. Date
p1999
Language
English
Description
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...
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