Bill Bryson THE LOST CONTINENT Folio Society
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Bill Bryson THE LOST CONTINENT Folio Society
First edition, second print slipcased hardback of THE LOST CONTINENT - Travels in Small-Town America, by Bill Bryson and Published by the Folio Society, London, in 2008.The book and the slipcase are both in near fine condition (Bound in cambric grain paper. Illustrated with contemporary photographs on boards and white and brown lettering on spine). In its original brown slipcase. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
"'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' - Bill Bryson
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 small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres.
Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered 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 stranger in his own land.
The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation."
'High-spiritedhilarious.' - Observer
'Hilarioushe can be suave, sarcastic and very funnynot your typical travel writer.' - Sunday Telegraph
'Funny as this wonderful book is, it is also a serious indictment of the American way of life and the direction in which it is goinghe is genuinely shocked, as we are, by the statistics of affluence, poverty, crime and culture that he drops in hither and thither.' - Irish Times
'A very funny performance, littered with wonderful lines and memorable images.' - Literary Review
Book size: 9?" ? 6?". 239 pages with 16 pages of colour.
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