The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a plain, evocative and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud amusing.”
Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Planet came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an ancient college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family tree in the middle of America to glide, become invisible, shoot guns out of people’s hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.
Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.” In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being tiny and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes – especially to anyone who has ever been young.
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This was not an average middle class family tree.
I was expecting maybe a farm family tree which was more predictable of Iowa in 1960
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Bryson is perhaps our most over-hyped leader. He Is certainly my personal king-of-dashed-expectations. To say this is worse than the terrible “Walk in the Woods” (I know it is beloved by many) is about the most negative I can say, but it is. Why do people read this nonsense?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana in the ’50s and we despised it at the time. I thought I was being held captive in Hell and tortured on a regular basis. Bryson made Ft. Wayne sound excellent, in retrospect. We had all the same characters and did lots of the same stuff. But he left out one vital category of growing up…..barfing in class. Man, that was permanently an event when a name barfed! It would stop the class while poor ancient Mr. Trimm would come in and mop it up. I’d say, in any agreed year, about 1/3 of the kids would barf at some time or additional. And if you ever did it once, your followers would never let you forget it. I don’t know how Byrson missed such an vital topic….or maybe the food was just better in Des Moines.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
But Bill,
Why, when you have an obvious like for our USA…did you become an ex-patriot????? It is very disturbing. Just not right. Your words flow as velvet. But…permanently, in the back of my mind, I’m a tad annoyed with your final choice to be a Brit. That is why I’m not giving 5 star
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This was truly the worst. The attempt at humor falls flat. There were some things that ring right like electric football etc. The tale is pure fiction with the leader as the hero. The anti-american anti republican rant gets tiresome after awhile.The leader misses no opportunity to denigrate the US.
From the cold war (Russia had a right to place warheads in Cuba because we had them in Europe)to George Bush being a draft dodger.What can you expect from a far left loon who despises this country so much that he moves to England. I got this book as a christmas present but never would have bought it and do not recommend it.;
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5