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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir / Bill Bryson. |
| Authors: | Bryson, Bill. |
| Call number: | B Bryson, Bill BRY |
| Publisher: | New York : Broadway Books, c2006. |
| Publication date: | c2006. |
| Subject: |
Travel writers -- United States -- Biography.
Bryson, Bill. |
| Title: | The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir / Bill Bryson. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | x, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Summary note: | Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck, vanquishing evildoers--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using his fantasy-life persona as a springboard, Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at once familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.--From publisher description. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-270). |
| ISBN: | 076791936X |
| LCCN: | 2006043859 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1062789 |
| Bib No.: | 1062789 |
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