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Lost Continent Travels in Small Town Ame

by Bill Bryson

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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 small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and 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 discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

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An account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because he has become a foreigner in his own country.

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ISBN:

9780552998086

Author:

BRYSON, BILL

Publisher:

TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD

Location:

N

Copyright:

1999

Edition Description:

NEW ED

Publication Date:

19990102

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Pages:

349

Dimensions:

198 x 129 in.

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Product details 349 pages Transworld Publishers Ltd - 1999-01-02 English 9780552998086 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Gardners, An account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because he has become a foreigner in his own country.