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

By:

Bryson, Bill, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Large print booksPublication details: New York : Random House Large Print , c2006Description: 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375434303

Subject(s):

Travel writers -- -United States -- Biography

DDC classification:

LARP 910.4 BRY

Summary: 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 memories of a totally all-American childhood for twenty-four-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 wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using his old fantasy - life persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality -- a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.

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Large print book	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LARP 910.4 BRY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		025443

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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 memories of a totally all-American childhood for twenty-four-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 wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using his old fantasy - life persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality -- a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.

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