01304cam a2200277 4500 888522826 TxAuBib 20160809120000.0 071005s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006043859 9780767919371 pbk. 0767919378 pbk. (OCoLC)173685059 IHY IHY BTCTA IHI OCL GU7GB WKM MVQ TxAuBib Bryson, Bill. The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir / Bill Bryson. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2006. x, 270 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.--From publisher description. 20160809. Bryson, Bill Childhood and youth. Travel writers United States Biography. Des Moines (Iowa) Biography.