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Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416580654 |
Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life. Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it’s perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. They all know each other completely, except that they’ve never met. But when a deadly blizzard—based on an actual storm that occurred in 1984—hits the area, their lives are derailed in unexpected and powerful ways. An unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is “a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the profound” (Publishers Weekly).
Author | : Peter Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578716237 |
A Decade of Stories and Photos by Peter Green
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416544186 |
A "New York Times"-bestselling author and one of America's top cultural critics ("Entertainment Weekly") presents his first novel that combines an irresistible portrait of Midwestern small-town life with his own remarkable sense of humor.
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2006-09-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743284887 |
A bestselling pop culture guru and author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" takes a unique look at his career in journalism, in this collection of work that includes the legendary chicken McNuggets experiment and an uncensored profile of Britney Spears.
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 143918447X |
Treating a delusional scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible, Austin therapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with his accounts of spying on the private lives of others.
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735217939 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Author | : Andrew Larsen |
Publisher | : Owlkids |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-03-15 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781926973999 |
Each summer, a girl travels with her family to the same beachside resort, with everything being comfortably predictable, but this year, the pattern of her vacation changes when she meets a new friend.
Author | : Niki LeClair |
Publisher | : Sweetgrass Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 9781591522256 |
Poems about animals wild and domestic from Idaho. Includes facts about each animal at the end of the book.
Author | : Mike Unwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780300222739 |
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Author | : Seth Vannatta |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812697626 |
Since he burst on the world with his heavy-metal memoir Fargo Rock City in 2001, Chuck Klosterman has been one of the most successful novelists and essayists in America. His collections of essays Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas have established Klosterman not only as a credible spokesman for intelligent purveyors of popular culture. His writings and regular columns (in Spin, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and other venues) about music, sports, and modern culture have sometimes become themselves touchstones in popular culture. The success of his card-based game Hypertheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations has demonstrated that Klosterman can connect with his fans and readers even off the printed page. As he writes in his contribution to this book, Klosterman "enjoys writing about big, unwieldy ideas" as they circulate in culture, in people, in music, and in sports. The twenty-two other philosophers writing alongside Klosterman couldn't agree more. They offer their own take on the concepts and puzzles that fascinate him and take up many of Chuck's various challenges to answer brain-twisting "hypertheticals" or classic ethical quandaries that would arise if, say, Aristotle wandered backstage at a Kiss concert.