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From one of the very 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 gives on the promise that it's “laugh-out-loud funny.”
Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson had not been of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of an 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 previously been located 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 way of Superman.
Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.” In such a hilarious new memoir, he travels back again to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for ordinary people, this can be a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes – especially to whoever has have you ever been young.
