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Also by Chuck Klosterman:

The Nineties, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
I Wear The Black Hat, July 2013
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Eating The Dinosaur, October 2009
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Downtown Owl: A Novel, September 2008
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Chuck Klosterman IV, September 2006
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, June 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Fargo Rock City, May 2002
Paperback

FARGO ROCK CITY
By: Chuck Klosterman

A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

Scribner
May 2002
On Sale: May 1, 2002
288 pages
ISBN: 0743406567
EAN: 9780743406567
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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.

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