Stars & Bars is a hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy, which Boyd also adapted for screen for the 1980s film starring Daniel Day Lewis; it was originally described in the Guardian as, ` Splittingly shrewd & engaging … with an extra & uneasy little something fretting away at the ribald content`. All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire & the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher & sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness & surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he?