Bill Bryson: Notes from a Big Country (Hardcover, 2000, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C)
Hardcover, 458 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2000 by Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C.
The phenomenal bestseller from the author of Notes From a Small Island.From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true American self again.After vigorous exercise on the Appalachian Trail comes this edited collection of Bryson's most splenetic comic pieces culled from his humorous regular column in the Mail on Sunday.
3.5* (audiobook)
I'm a long-term Bryson fan, but this fell short of the mark for me. It's a book form publication of a regular newspaper column, and the short pieces on eclectic topics make it rather superficial.
