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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir / Bill Bryson.

Bryson, Bill. (Author).

Summary:

Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. Using his fantasy-life persona as a springboard, Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at once familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780767919371
  • ISBN: 0767919378
  • ISBN: 9780767919364
  • ISBN: 076791936X
  • ISBN: 9781439559413
  • ISBN: 1439559414
  • Physical Description: x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st pbk. edition
  • Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2006]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270).
Formatted Contents Note:
Hometown -- Welcome to kid world -- Birth of a superhero -- The age of excitement -- The pursuit of pleasure -- Sex and other distractions -- Boom! -- School days -- Man at work -- Down on the farm -- What, me worry? -- Out and about -- The public years -- Farewell.
Target Audience Note:
1330L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Reading Counts RC High School 12. 20 Quiz: 58975.

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Travel writers > United States > Biography.
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Autobiographies.

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