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Bill Bryson - At Home (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home.
To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.”
The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life.
Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Thick Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Home & Garden
- Published : 2010 (Black Swan)
- ISBN : 9780552772556
- SKU : SHB000056
- PPC : SP490gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"A work of constant delight and discovery . . . His great skill is to make daily life simultaneously strange and familiar, and in so doing, help us to recognise ourselves. A treasure: don't leave home without it" - Judith Flanders, Sunday Telegraph.
"Enchanting . . . Bryson tackled science in his brilliant A Short History of Nearly Everything. This new book could as easily be categorised as 'a short history of nearly everything else' . . . extraordinarily entertaining" - Antonia Senior, The Times.
"Not just hugely readable but a genuine pageturner. None of these things, needless to say, are as easy as Bryson in his ever-genial way makes them seem" - James Walton, Daily Telegraph.
"Entertaining, fact-packed . . . He is a cheery, idiosyncratic guide, eclectic rather than scholarly, a true populariser. At Home will have every reader eyeing home rather differently" - Financial Times.
"The much-loved writer takes the attention to detail that made A Short History of Nearly Everything such a fantastic guide to all things science, and applies it to our homes. Written in his laid-back style, this is a wonderful celebration of what makes a house a home" - News of the World.
The Author
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain.
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