Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the
Woods (now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and
Nick Nolte), Notes from a Small Island, I’m a Stranger Here
Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly
Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, At Home, and One
Summer. He lives in England with his wife.
www.billbrysonbooks.com
“Delightful. . . . Bryson’s enthusiasm brightens any dull corner. .
. . Hand over control and simply enjoy the ride.” –The New York
Times Book Review
"An exuberant, shared social history. . . . Told with Bryson's
habitual brio. . . . A personal compendium of fascinating facts,
suggesting how the history of houses and domesticity has shaped our
lives, language, and ideas." -The New York Review of Books
“A treasure trove. . . . Playful, yes, but Bryson is also a deft
historian.” –Los Angeles Times
“If this book doesn’t supply you with five years’ worth of dinner
conversation, you’re not paying attention.” –People
“Bryson is fascinated by everything, and his curiosity is
infectious. . . . You can take this class in your pajamas—and,
judging by the book’s laid-back, comfy tone, I have a sneaking
suspicion that Bryson wrote much of it in his.” –New York Times
Book Review
“The experience of reading a Bill Bryson book is something you
don’t want to stop—a pip and a spree and, almost incidentally, a
serious education. And never tiresome, for Bryson has the gift of
being the student and not the tutor.” –Washington Post
“At Home is both insightful and entertaining, leaving a deeper
appreciation of the stuff of home life that will never again be
viewed as mundane.” –Seattle Times
“Readers who enjoyed Mr. Bryson’s apparently inexhaustible supply
of nifty facts in such previous books as “A Short History of Nearly
Everything” (2004) or “The Mother Tongue” (1991) will be happy to
find the author’s pen as nimble and his narrative persona as genial
as ever.” –Wall Street Journal
“Bryson serves up a rich banquet of utterly fascinating and
sometimes horrifying facts of where and how people have slept,
eaten, made a living, built homes and monuments, frolicked,
traveled, given birth and been laid to rest.” –Bookreporter.com
“Its lasting impression is the author’s delightful, boundless
curiosity. . . . The best nonfiction illuminates what we found
impossible to see without it, and perhaps more so than any of his
other wonderful books, At Home proves that Bryson writes some of
the very best.” –"The AV Club," The Onion
“Bryson writes with his usual slyly sassy humor. . . . The result
makes for reading that charms as it informs.” –St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
“Reading Bill Bryson is like having one of those friends around
who’s always discovering something new—some pastime or place or
piece of information—and can’t wait to breathlessly pass it along.”
–Dallas Morning News
“Deliciously informative. . . . A treasure trove of facts in an
engaging history of how we once lived.” –Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“At Home is terrific. Bryson is a brilliant writer.” –The Charlotte
Observer
“Bryson is the ultimate fact-filled uncle. . . . A delightful book
filled with humor and astonishing facts.” –Vancouver Sun
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