The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000JMKHFM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 282 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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In portraying the boyish exploits of his "Thunderbolt Kid" superhero alter ego, he convincingly evokes both the unadulterated joys and everyday battles of childhood. From Publishers Weekly For most of his adult life, Bryson has made his home in the U.K, yet he actually entered the world in 1951 as part of America's postwar baby boom and spent his formative years in Des Moines, Iowa. Narrating, Bryson skillfully wields his amorphous accent—somehow neither fully British nor Midwestern—to project a genial and entertaining tour guide of lost Americana. As an added bonus, the final CD features an i
ANDRE said This is one for the ages!. To entertain so wonderfully by telling the tales of the past with such grace is the supreme talent of Bill Bryson.The ease at which he delivers the heavy and the humorous, especially for those blessed with the audio version of his books, only opens up parts of the heart and mind that could have been dormant for ages.I highly recommend this book, in particular, but also other of his works including, but not limited. M. Harris said The Life and Times of Bill Bryson. This is a sentimental book about the good old 1950's and growing up in them in the midwest. There are not nearly as many laughs as there are in some of Bryson's earlier books, but it's a pleasant read filled with warm memories and Bryson's obsessively researched asides. I'm curious about the concept of the Thunderbolt Kid for the book. His super-hero alter ego is mentioned maybe five times throughout the book and . iashutterbug said Very Entertaining / Highly Recommended.. Even though I was a ''girl'', but still of the same generation as the author, this book brought back many carefree memories for me. I too remember running around the neighborhood with a towel pinned around my neck, playing a Super Girl of sorts. This was before I'd ever heard of Wonder Woman. Memories as well of getting our first TV, and later the first time I actually saw a color TV !Overall, this book was highly
Somebody had to.” In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.”Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. 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. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes – especially to anyone who has ever been young.. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly