книга "The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid" — Билл БрайсонThe life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Роман о счастливом детстве в штате Айова. Ностальгическое повествование о 50-х годах прошлого века с перечислением всех примет эпохи - от леденцов на палочке до пин-апа - заслужило признание в Америке именно как напоминание о старых добрых временах.
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny. "Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people’s hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman. | 
