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Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Travels Through My Childhood

Bryson Bill

9781784161811

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Price: $24.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781784161811
Published: November 2015

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Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West.

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around the house wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel round his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing evildoers (in his head) as The Thunderbolt Kid.
Using his childhood fantasy life as a springboard, Bill Bryson recreates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality. In a period that saw the inexorable rise of television, the opening of Disneyland, the testing of the atomic bomb, and the explosion of choice in everything from food to cars, Bill Bryson's days followed in reassuringly cosy succession, enlivened by modest triumphs and disasters.
Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, The Rise and Fall of the Thunderbolt Kid is a modern classic, full of Bill Bryson's inimitable, pitch-perfect observations.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781784161811
Published: November 2015

Number of pages: 384
Width: 127 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 23 mm

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

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