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Stephen Fry In America
Stephen Fry
Fifty States And The Man Who Set Out To See Them All
William Morrow
April 2010
On Sale: March 23, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0061456381
EAN: 9780061456381
Hardcover
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Humor | Non-Fiction Biography
Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen
Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the
real America as he travels across the continent in his
chariot of Englishness, a black London cab.
Stephen Fry has always loved America. In
fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination
for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic
journey across America, visiting each of its fifty states to
discover how such a huge diversity of people, cultures,
languages, and beliefs creates such a remarkable nation.
Stephen starts his journey on the East Coast and zigzags
across America, stopping in every state from Maine to
Hawaii, talking to each state's hospitable citizens,
listening to music, visiting landmarks, viewing small-town
life and America's breathtaking landscapes, following
wherever his curiosity leads him. En route he
discovers the South Side of Chicago with blues legend Buddy
Guy, catches up with Morgan Freeman in Mississippi, strides
around with Ted Turner on his Montana ranch, marches with
Zulus in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, drums with the Sioux
Nation in South Dakota, joins a Georgia family for
Thanksgiving, "picks" with bluegrass hillbillies, and finds
himself in a Tennessee garden full of dead bodies.
Whether in a club for failed gangsters in Brooklyn, New
York (yes, those are real bullet holes), or celebrating
Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts (is there anywhere
better?), Stephen is welcomed by the people of
America—mayors, sheriffs, newspaper editors, park rangers,
teachers, and hoboes, bringing to life the oddities and
splendors of each locale. A celebration of the magnificent
and the eccentric, the beautiful and the strange, Stephen
Fry in America is the author's homage to this
extraordinary country.
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