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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 190 pages. 5.50x0.43x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 217 pages. 5.50x0.49x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Hooper, Mark (jacket photograph); Cozza, Marc (jacket design) (illustrator). As new condition mustard boards, blue spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bill Bryson; Author Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Illustration Credits and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and photographic front and rear endpapers. "Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense." - Wall Street Journal. "From one of the most beloved and best-selling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950's. 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 best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memoires of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat 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 with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that seved as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons) - in his head - as "The Thunderbolt kid." Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality - at once completey failiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishings editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson's earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearnace in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wonderous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Bill Bryson's laugh-out-loud pilgrimage through his fifties childhood in heartland America is a national treasure. It's full of insights, wit, and wicked adolescent fantasies." - Tom Brokaw. "Bryson writes about.America in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny." - San Francisco Examiner. "Bryson is.great company.a lumbering, droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Knisley, and.Dave Barry." - New York TImes Book Review.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

Zustand: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.