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He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his inimitable, pitch-perfect It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you.
It was, he reminds us, a happy time, He is joined in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his generational peers, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the American century—1951—in the middle of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.
It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, He is joined in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.
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