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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bryson, Bill. I'm a stranger here myself. New York : Broadway Books, c1999 (OCoLC)607164084 |
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| Named Person: | Bill Bryson |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill Bryson |
| ISBN: | 0767903811 9780767903813 |
| OCLC Number: | 40762711 |
| Description: | xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Coming Home -- Mail Call -- Drug Culture -- What's Cooking? -- Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down -- Rule Number I: Follow All Rules -- Take Me Out to the Ballpark -- Help! -- A Visit to the Barbershop -- On the Hotline -- Design Flaws -- Room Service -- Consuming Pleasures -- The Numbers Game -- Junk-Food Heaven -- How to Have Fun at Home -- Tales of the North Woods -- The Cupholder Revolution -- Number, Please -- Friendly People -- Why Everyone Is Worried -- The Risk Factor -- The War on Drugs -- Dying Accents -- Inefficiency Report -- Why No One Walks -- Wide-Open Spaces -- Snoopers at Work -- Lost at the Movies -- Gardening with My Wife -- Ah, Summer! -- A Day at the Seaside -- On Losing a Son -- Highway Diversions -- Fall in New England -- The Best American Holiday -- Deck the Halls -- Fun in the Snow -- The Mysteries of Christmas -- Life in a Cold Climate -- Hail to the Chief -- Lost in Cyberland -- Your Tax Form Explained -- Book Tours -- The Waste Generation -- A Slight Inconvenience -- At the Drive-In -- Drowning in Red Tape -- Life's Mysteries -- So Sue Me -- The Great Indoors -- Death Watch -- In Praise of Diners -- Shopping Madness -- The Fat of the Land -- Your New Computer -- How to Rent a Car -- The Wasteland -- The Flying Nightmare -- Enough Already -- At a Loss -- Old News -- Rules for Living -- Our Town -- Word Play -- Last Night on the Titanic -- Property News -- Life's Technicalities -- An Address to the Graduating Class of Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire. |
| Other Titles: | I am a stranger here myself |
| Responsibility: | Bill Bryson. |
Abstract:
Bryson recalls his return to the United States after twenty years in England.
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