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1 online resource |
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text file rda |
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Hometown -- Welcome to kid world -- Birth of a superhero -- The age of excitement -- The pursuit of pleasure -- Sex and other distractions -- Boom! -- School days -- Man at work -- Down on the farm -- What, me worry? -- Out and about -- The public years -- Farewell. |
| Summary |
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck, vanquishing evildoers--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." 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. |
| Audience |
1330L Lexile |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Bryson, Bill.
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Bryson, Bill. |
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Travel writers -- United States -- Biography.
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Travel writers. |
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Dagelijks leven. |
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United States. |
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Iowa (staat) |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780767926317 : $47.97 |
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0767926315 : $47.97 |
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