TY - BOOK AU - Bryson,Bill TI - The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid SN - 9780552772549 (pbk.) : U1 - 910.4092 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Black Swan KW - Bryson, Bill KW - Travel writers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Autobiography N1 - Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2006 N2 - Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. In his funny memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was ER -