Notes from a Small Island -

Bill Bryson

Transworld Publishers

1999

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780552996006

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance toshop until 10 p.m. seven
nights a week, and, most of ali, because he had read that 3.7 rnillion Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him.

But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire,
Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of
valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his
home. His aim was to take stock of the natiori's public face and private
parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a rnilitary hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells, people who said 'Mustn't grumble' and Gardeners' Question Time.

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Agora faz sentido o livro não ter sido publicado no Brasil. Não é um conteúdo relevante para quem não é vizinho do Reino Unido. Só vai entender de verdade a leitura quem já foi na Inglaterra ou quem mora nas proximidades e conhece os lugares pelo nome. Não é o meu caso. Inclusive essa leitura me fez questionar e até mesmo desistir da lista dos 100 livros da BBC antes de morrer já que eles puxam muito a sardinha para o lado deles. Na lista tem vários livros do Charles Dickens por exemplo. E claro que eles colocariam um livro que nada mais é do que uma viagem por toda a Inglaterra