Bill Bryson tells the story of life by describing his hallway
Bryson’s new book is a masterful balance of scale. He uses the layout and history of his small house – a former parsonage – in England as the framework for a story about why we live the way we do. Whether writing about the gifted amateurs who created some of the most enduring habitation-building techniques or the quaint sociology that allowed village parsons to live well – until they couldn’t – follows the tradition of Bryson’s best quirky, observation-based writing.
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