The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
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 | Bill Bryson's first book "The Lost Continent" starts with the line "I came from Des Moines, Iowa. Somebody had to." We now get the slightly exaggerated childhood and adolescence of Bill Bryson, aka The Thunderbolt Kid (in his own mind anyway) in Des Moines in the 1950s, when life in the USA for the average person was at its very best and unequalled anywhere else. Mr. Bryson presents an affectionate picture of the now-disappeared small(ish)-town America in the pre-McDonald's era, before Everywhere became like Everywhere Else.
I confess that I am a sucker for his droll style and keen sense of observation - he seems to have a talent for making the ordinary wryly amusing and even laugh-out-loud funny. I can understand why other people wouldn't find this book as thoroughly enjoyable as some of his other stuff. I'm not one of those. read more.
Written by Bill Bryson.
Published 04 June 2007.
Published by Black Swan.
rrp £7.99.
416 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0552772542
ISBN-13: 9780552772549 | |
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