The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir / Bill Bryson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Broadway Books, c2006Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: x, 270 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780767919371 (pbk.); 0767919378 (pbk.)Subject(s): Bryson, Bill -- Childhood and youth | Travel writers -- United States -- Biography | Des Moines (Iowa) -- BiographyLOC classification: G154.5.B79 | A3 2007Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-270)
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.
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