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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

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Bill Bryson never disappoints (unless you are a reader who carries extra weight, in which case you will find him bigoted in such an appalling (not to say inaccurate) way that simply would not be tolerated if it were a racist attack. But that aside, Bryson skips through the USA with his usual jocular asides and witty observations. The ideal Christmas gift for anyone you usually have trouble buying for – guaranteed to make you laugh, cringe and enjoy.

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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Dead Squaw, Coma, Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He found a continent that was doubly lost;lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Release date Australia
January 2nd, 1999
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Black Swan
Pages
384
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Dimensions
128x199x24
ISBN-13
9780552998086
Product ID
1653737

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