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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

by Bill Bryson

Broadway. 2006. 288p. ISBN 9780767919364. $25; pap. ISBN 9780767919371. $15.99.

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This author of numerous travel adventures has always been a funny guy. Growing up in Des Moines in the 1950s, he was the quintessential mischievous boy enjoying the freedom of middle-class life in a time many readers would gladly revisit. (LJ 7/07)

Reviewed by Staff , Jan 24, 2013

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