Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
by Chuck Klosterman
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780743406567 |
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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.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780743406567
- Subtitle:
- A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
- Author:
- 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
- Copyright:
- 2002
- 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.











