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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

by Chuck Klosterman

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Empirically proving that — no matter where you are — kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock — his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet — but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.

Review:

"[W]hat Lester Bangs would have written had he been a farmboy raised on a diet of Skid Row and KISS." Kirkus Reviews

Review:

"Writing about American pop culture doesn't get any better than this, or any funnier, or any more readable." Stephen King

Synopsis:

Powered by a sharp and wholly original voice, Klosterman delivers a real-life "High Fidelity" in this savvy, deliriously funny memoir of growing up a shameless heavy-metal devotee in 1980s North Dakota.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780743406567
Subtitle:
A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Author:
Klosterman, Chuck
Author:
Klosterman, Chuc
Author:
K
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Location:
New York
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
United states
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Heavy metal (music)
Subject:
North dakota
Subject:
Heavy Metal
Subject:
Childhood Memoir
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Genres & Styles - Heavy Metal
Subject:
Heavy metal (Music) - Social aspects -
Subject:
North Dakota Social life and customs.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st Touchstone ed.
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
107-331
Publication Date:
May 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.16x5.34x.78 in. .57 lbs.

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