Title: "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: a Memoir"
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway
Pages: 270
Price: $25
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When the brilliant satirist Bill Bryson was a little boy, he ran around his house in an old football jersey emblazoned with a thunderbolt, and wore a cape (towel) about his neck. He leaped tall buildings in a single bound and destroyed evildoers ... all in his head, of course. Bryson's hilarious look back at life in the 1950s relies on gross exaggeration, though there may be some core of truth at its base. But I challenge you to find it.