The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir
/ Bill Bryson
- x, 270 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.