Bill Bryson's first release since his widely-acclaimed popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything takes the reader back to the days when all seemed right in America: the 1950s. In Thunderbolt Kid Bryson gives us a memoir full of colorful anecdotes from his own idyllic childhood in Des Moines mixed with interesting stories relating the eccentricities and anxieties of that era.
It may not quite reach the heights of his travel or science work, but Thunderbolt Kid still provides enough of Bryson's trademark subtle satire to keep the reader giggling the whole time.
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