Downtown Owl
A Novel
$48.04
- Paperback
275 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2009
Summary
Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn‘t there. Disco is over but punk never happened. They don’t have cable. They don‘t really have pop culture, unless you count grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. They hate the government and impregnate teenage girls. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it‘s perfect.
Chuck Klosterman’s "Downtown Owl" is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416544197 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416544194 |
| Author: | Chuck Klosterman |
| Publisher: | Scribner Book Company |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 275 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 139mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“It’s tempting to compare this novel with Sherwood Anderson’s classic portrait of small-town American life, Winesburg, Ohio. But no one in Winesburg listened to Ozzy Osbourne. And Klosterman is much funnier than Anderson.” – The Washington Post “An astonishingly moving book, a minor masterpiece in the genre we might call small-town quirkiana.” – The Boston Globe
About The Author
Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman is the “New York Times” bestselling author of seven books, including “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs” and “Eating the Dinosaur”. His debut book, “Fargo Rock City”, won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for “GQ, Esquire”, “The New York Times Magazine, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, A.V. Club”, and ESPN, and he now writes about sports and pop culture for Grantland.com.
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