Bill Bryson | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Recorded Oct 29, 2007
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20071029-billbry.mp3
Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of wiseacre travelogues A Walk in the Woods and I’m a Stranger Here Myself, as well as excursions into the English language including Mother Tongue and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is Bryson’s bittersweet and judiciously exaggerated memoir of his Midwest, mid-century childhood.
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