The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bryson, Bill

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ISBN 10: 0767919378 ISBN 13: 9780767919371

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 2007

Riassunto

The best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods and I'm a Stranger Here Myself describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

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“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 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.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, 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 Franciso Examiner

“Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Bryson is...great company...a lumbering, droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and...Dave Barry.”
—New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, and A Short of History of Nearly Everything, which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize. Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.

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• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0767919378
• ISBN 13: 9780767919371
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 270