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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson

R120.00

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson’s past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in A Walk in the Woods and “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe.” Bryson also describes and comments on American life in the 1950s. The title of the book comes from an imaginary alter-ego Bryson invented for himself in his childhood, who has the ability to “vaporise people.”

Price: R120.00

Edition: Second edition

Published: 2007

Publisher: Doubleday

ISBN:9780385608268

Condition: Hardcover and dust jacket in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges. Previous owners’ stamp on the end-papers, otherwise internally in excellent condition – very clean and tightly bound.

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson’s past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in A Walk in the Woods and “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe.” Bryson also describes and comments on American life in the 1950s. The title of the book comes from an imaginary alter-ego Bryson invented for himself in his childhood, who has the ability to “vaporise people.”

Price: R120.00

Edition: Second edition

Published: 2007

Publisher: Doubleday

ISBN:9780385608268

Condition: Hardcover and dust jacket in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges. Previous owners’ stamp on the end-papers, otherwise internally in excellent condition – very clean and tightly bound.

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Weight 651 g