Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling
non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body- A
Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human
body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
A wittily incisive book about innocence, and its limits, but in no
sense an innocent book... Like Alan Bennett, another ironist posing
as a sentimentalist, Bryson can play the teddy-bear and then
deliver a sudden, grizzly-style swipe... might tell us as much
about the oddities of the American way as a dozen think-tanks
*Independent*
A funny, effortlessly readable, quietly enchanted memoir... Bryson
also provides a quirky social history of America... he always
manages to slam on the brakes with a good joke just when things
might get sentimental
*Daily Mail*
Characteristic mixture of bemused wit, acerbic astonishment and
sweet benevolence... Evocation of an era is near perfect: tender,
hilarious and true
*The Times*
Outlandishly and improbably entertaining... inevitably [I] would be
reduced to body-racking, tear-inducing, de-couching laughter
*The New York Times*
Seriously funny
*The Sunday Times*
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