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

Klosterman, Chuck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743202279 ISBN 13: 9780743202275

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Powered by a sharp and wholly original voice, Chuck 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. The year is 1983, and Chuck Klosterman just wants to rock. But he's got problems. For one, he's in the fifth grade. For another, he's mired in rural North Dakota. Worst of all, his parents aren't exactly down with the long hairstyle which said rocking requires. Luckily, his brother saves the day when he brings home a bit of manna from metal heaven, Shout at the Devil, Motley Crue's seminal paean to hair-band excess. And so Klosterman's twisted odyssey begins, a journey spent worshipping at the heavy metal altar of Krokus, Ratt and Poison, and a journey from which, clearly, he has never fully recovered. In the hilarious, young man growing up with a soundtrack tradition, Fargo Rock City chronicles Klosterman's formative years through the lens of heavy metal, the irony-deficient genre that, for better or worse, dominated the pop charts throughout the 1980s. For readers of Dave Eggers, Lester Bangs, and Nick Hornby, Klosterman delivers all the goods: from his first dance (with a girl) and his eye-opening trip to Mandan, N.D., with the debate team; to his list of 'essential' albums; and his thoughtful analysis of the similarities between Guns 'n' Roses' 'Lies' and the gospels of the New Testament.

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Review:

Ronin Ro author of "Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records" With a style as hilarious as it is thought-provoking, Chuck Klosterman delivers an authoritative, impressive debut.

About the Author:

Chuck Klosterman is currently a music, film and culture critic for Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, began his career with The Forum in Fargo, North Dakota. He lives in Akron, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743202279
• ISBN 13: 9780743202275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288