This is an auction for LIFE & TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID by Bill Bryson.

"Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young."

"Bill Bryson's laugh-out-loud pilgrimage through his Fifties childhood in heartland America is a national treasure. It's full of insights, wit, and wicked adolescent fantasies."

• Tom Brokaw

"Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense."

• The Wall Street Journal

"A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes aboutAmerica in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny."

• San Franciso Examiner

"Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud."

• Chicago Sun-Times

"Bryson is great company - a lumbering, droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and Dave Barry."

• New York Times Book Review

For more about Bryson see:

http://tm2.co.nz/forums/view_topic.php?id=670&forum_id=76&highlight=bryson

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Hardback 2006.

309 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95, or $6.95 by tracked mail. If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.