At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson, 497 pages, Downloadable Audio-16 hours 32 minutes

Bryson, famed author of such works as A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid considers the country parsonage that he and his family live in, he takes us on an illuminating tour of the house, de-constructing it and explaining it room-by-room as he leads us through it. Starting with the hall, now merely an entranceway, but once the main part of the house, he leads us through the dwelling and through the changes seen in the last couple of hundred years, with many meanderings through the history of food, communicable disease, sex, toxic wall-covering and our relationship with rats (I can no longer comfortably use the garbage disposal). Informative and enjoyable.

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