- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409095781
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
Travels Through my Childhood
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409095781
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
A funny, effortlessly readable, quietly enchanted memoir... Bryson also provides a quirky social history of America... he always manages to slam on the brakes with a good joke just when things might get sentimental
Daily Mail
A wittily incisive book about innocence, and its limits, but in no sense an innocent book... Like Alan Bennett, another ironist posing as a sentimentalist, 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
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Always witty and sometimes hilarious... wonderfully funny and touching
Literary Review
Characteristic mixture of bemused wit, acerbic astonishment and sweet benevolence... Evocation of an era is near perfect: tender, hilarious and true
The Times
Funny, wise, learned and compulsive
GQ
Hilarious... not your typical travel writer
Sunday Telegraph
Not only hilarious but also insightful and informative
Independent on Sunday
Outlandishly and improbably entertaining... inevitably [I] would be reduced to body-racking, tear-inducing, de-couching laughter
The New York Times
Seriously funny
The Sunday Times