Ever since his gut-bustingly funny debut, The Lost Continent, American travel writer Bill Bryson has been known as one of the keenest and most humorous observers of both his home country and abroad. The Lost Continent detailed his travels around small-town USA, looking for the quiet dignity and strangeness he remembered from growing up in Iowa, while the hilarious Neither Here Nor There was about student wanderings round Europe. Now, in The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood, Bryson returns to his childhood in the American Fifties.

    美国旅行作家比尔•布莱森因其令人忍俊不禁的处女作《一脚踩进小美国》获得国内外读者的广泛认同 ......