Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet: into his own childhood in America's Mid-West.Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the …
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Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet: into his own childhood in America's Mid-West.Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his deeply funny new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes – especially to anyone who has ever been young.
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Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Broadway Books.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Broadway Books.
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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid
270 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Broadway Books.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
288 pages
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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English language
Published 2006 by Broadway Books.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
288 pages
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid on Playaway
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Published by Findaway World.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid
426 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Random House.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
English language
Published 2006 by Corgi Audio.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Published 2010 by Transworld.
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Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Memoir
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Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
384 pages
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Published 2016 by Transworld Publishers Limited.
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Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Published 2010 by Penguin Random House.
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