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look of President Kennedy on the television screen. But these serious moments represent a minority of the anecdotes that arouse a nostalgia for cities and towns without franchises and chain stores where each one-ofa-kind shop or restaurant had an owner the populace knew. Sound familiar? This memoir concludes in the late fifties, when “people were wealthier than ever before, but life somehow didn't seem as much fun.... People were beginning to discover that joyous consumerism is a world of diminishing returns.” (p. 235) The innocence and simplicity of the fifties begins to fade with the story line.
This book took me a long time to read because I read almost every page twice—once to myself and once aloud to my husband. Many Rappahannock residents will enjoy The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, whether they read it as a familiar memoir or as ancient history.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson, Broadway Books: 2006. ISBN: 13S78D-7679-193&4
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