- History, Americanisms, English language, Social life and customs
Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.
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Warm, cool, comic and resolved.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Bill Bryson
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 417
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, MINERVA, William Morrow & Company
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780754054900
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“The image of the spiritual founding of America that generations of Americans have grown up with was created, oddly enough, by a poet of limited talents (to put it in the most magnanimous possible way) who lived two centuries after the event in a country three thousand miles away.”
"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
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