Rock* by Chuck Klosterman - ISBN: 9780306837999
Hardcover
What if rock music, not reality, was king?
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Rock*

A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music

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  • Hardcover

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    24 November 2026

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Summary

Kaleidoscopic culture critic Chuck Klosterman rewrites the history of reality, built off a question that has never been asked or (in all likelihood) even considered: What if Phillip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle was actually about rock music?

The Velvet Underground & Nico was released in the spring of 1967. For decades, the cliche has been that it initially only sold 10,000 copies, though everyone who bought it supposedly started a band. It is the definition of a r…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780306837999
ISBN-10:0306837994
Author:Chuck Klosterman
Publisher:Hachette Books
Imprint:Da Capo Press Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:24 November 2026
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of ten nonfiction books, including Football, The Nineties, But What If We’re Wrong?, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. He has also published two novels, Downtown Owl and The Visible Man, and a short story collection, Raised in Captivity. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.

He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years and was a founder of the website Grantland.

He was raised in North Dakota and now lives in Portland, Oregon.

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