Notes from a Big Country

Doubleday / Transworld Publishers, 1998. Fading to spine and wear to dustjacket, especially at spine extremities, foxing at page edges.

Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, he upped sticks with Mrs. Bryson, little Jimmy et al, and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood... Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life...