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Feb 7, 2021 · He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home.
CHAPTER 2 • Welcome to Kid World CHAPTER 3 • Birth of a Superhero CHAPTER 4 • The Age of Excitement CHAPTER 5 • The Pursuit of Pleasure CHAPTER 6 • Sex and Other Distractions CHAPTER 7 • Boom! CHAPTER 8 • School Days CHAPTER 9 • Man at Work CHAPTER 10 • Down on the Farm CHAPTER 11 • What, Me Worry? CHAPTER 12 • Out and About
Sep 25, 2007 · 4.4 4,994 ratings. See all formats and editions. From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
- Bill Bryson
- $10.29
- Broadway Books
Books. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt.
Oct 17, 2006 · 4.4 4,995 ratings. See all formats and editions. From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
About The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. From one of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
