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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota Paperback - 2002

by Chuck Klosterman

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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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 Mtley Cre'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.

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You know, I've never had long hair.

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  • Title Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
  • Author Chuck Klosterman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-05-01
  • ISBN 9780743406567 / 0743406567
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.34 x 0.78 in (20.73 x 13.56 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Geographic Orientation: North Dakota
  • Library of Congress subjects Heavy metal (Music) - Social aspects -, North Dakota - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003555571
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • New York Times, 05/12/2002, Page 28
  • People Weekly, 09/01/2003, Page 55

About the author

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazinefor three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.
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