At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0767919386
- ISBN 13
- 9780767919388
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Synopsis
BILL BRYSON ’s books include A Walk in the Woods , I’m a Stranger Here Myself , In a Sunburned Country , Bryson’s Book of Troublesome Words , A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid , and Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors . Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.
Reviews
“…centuries and centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping, having sex, endeavouring to be amused – ant it occurred to me….that that’s really what history is: masses of people doing ordinary things”
At Home: a short history of private life is the fifteenth book by American author, Bill Bryson. With his uniquely individual style, Bryson takes the reader around his house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory, and he explores the history of activities that are (sometimes very loosely) associated with each room’s designation. Thus he touches on a vast array of topics and presents all sorts of noteworthy, sometimes surprising and occasionally hilarious facts.
At over six hundred pages of content, this is quite a brick, but is, as with many Bryson books, easy to read and thoroughly fascinating. Bryson has a talent for making the most ordinary, everyday subject interesting, and in this book he also explains the origin of many terms in common usage that we seldom think about, along with their meanings. Another excellent Bryson offering.
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- Title
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0767919386
- ISBN 13
- 9780767919388
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 2010
- Pages
- 512
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Architecture;
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