Author: BILL BRYSON
Title: Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Travels through my childhood
Description: Groothandel - BESTEL. Paperback. Pp: 403. THE No. 1 BESTSELLER - Is this the most cheerful book I`ve ever read?. hilarious. a lovely, happy book` Evening Standard - Tender, hilarious and true` The TimesBill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, - I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.` In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boy`s growing up. But in Bryson`s hands, it becomes everyone`s story, one that will speak volumes " especially to anyone who has ever been young. - Outlandishly and improbably entertaining` New York Times - Wittily incisive. like Alan Bennett. Bryson can play the teddy-bear and then deliver a sudden, grizzly-style swipe. might tell us as much about the oddities of the American way as a dozen think-tanks` Independent - His greatest gift is as a humorist, so it is the snickers, the guffaws and the undignified belly laughs he delivers on almost every page that make it worth buying` Sydney Morning Herald. ISBN: 9780552155465. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780552155465
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Title: Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Travels through my childhood
Description: Groothandel - BESTEL. Paperback. Pp: 403. THE No. 1 BESTSELLER - Is this the most cheerful book I`ve ever read?. hilarious. a lovely, happy book` Evening Standard - Tender, hilarious and true` The TimesBill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, - I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.` In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boy`s growing up. But in Bryson`s hands, it becomes everyone`s story, one that will speak volumes " especially to anyone who has ever been young. - Outlandishly and improbably entertaining` New York Times - Wittily incisive. like Alan Bennett. Bryson can play the teddy-bear and then deliver a sudden, grizzly-style swipe. might tell us as much about the oddities of the American way as a dozen think-tanks` Independent - His greatest gift is as a humorist, so it is the snickers, the guffaws and the undignified belly laughs he delivers on almost every page that make it worth buying` Sydney Morning Herald. ISBN: 9780552155465. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780552155465
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 624879
- Book number: 624879
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