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The Life And Times of The Thunderbolt Kid: Bill Bryson
The Life And Times of The Thunderbolt Kid: Bill Bryson
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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. 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 for a 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, Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality - 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 healthy. There’s affectionate portraits of his parents – his father was a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises; his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. There’s a Bryson gallery of immortal characters including Stephen Katz and the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends.
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Hardback; 1st edition by Doubleday 2006; light shelfwear to dust jacket otherwise very goodShare
