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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Paperback) Loot Price: R275
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Paperback): Bill Bryson

The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Paperback)

Bill Bryson

Series: Bryson

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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. ........................................................................................................................................... 'Seriously funny' The Sunday Times 'A funny, effortlessly readable, quietly enchanted memoir' Daily Mail 'A wittily incisive book about innocence, and its limits, but in no sense an innocent book... Like Alan Bennett, another ironist posing as a sentimentalist, Bryson can play the teddy-bear and then deliver a sudden, grizzly-style swipe' Independent 'Outlandishly and improbably entertaining... inevitably [I] would be reduced to body-racking, tear-inducing, de-couching laughter' New York Times 'Characteristic mixture of bemused wit, acerbic astonishment and sweet benevolence... His evocation of an era is near perfect: tender, hilarious and true' The Times

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Imprint: Black Swan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Bryson
Release date: November 2015
Authors: Bill Bryson
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 978-1-78416-181-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-78416-181-0
Barcode: 9781784161811

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