Made In America

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Bill Bryson being very funny about his native land.

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Bill Bryson turns away form 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.In Made In America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.Buy this book at once and have a nice day!

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Clues to the more mysterious things in life are often lying around us, common as dust bunnies, as numerous as mould spores. My ten-month-old daughter, Greta, likes to have a poke around, a casual survey of our unit kingdom. More often than not I see size-one feet disappearing around a corner, bound for a bout with the CD tower, a lurch towards a power cord, a cuddle with this really creepy doll my...

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"'The book is a triumph. Bryson carries it off by his joie de vivre, his unadorned prose and the sheer width of his snooping beneath the skin of the American dream'" - Literary Review

"'A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities'" - Will Self, Independent on Sunday

"'Immensely entertaining...a sharp eye for odd facts and amusing anecdotes'" - Michael Sheldon, Daily Telegraph

"'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive'" - GQ

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