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- Like a colder, Reagan-era version of The Last Picture Show fused with Friday Night Lights, Chuck Klosterman's Downtown Owl is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing.
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Downtown Owl: A Novel is a novel written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2008. It is the author's first all-fictional publication. [1] Plot outline. The story describes the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, in which three characters are intangibly connected.
Sep 16, 2008 · Like a colder, Reagan-era version of The Last Picture Show fused with Friday Night Lights, Chuck Klosterman's Downtown Owl is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing.
- (12.7K)
- Hardcover
- Chuck Klosterman
Dec 29, 2008 · A high school kid in a decidedly unliterary North Dakota town is nicknamed after a beast from “Beowulf”? Yes. And there are more puzzling nicknames, for characters who amount to no more than stage...
- Peter Meehan
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).
- Chuck Klosterman
- June 23, 2009
- Paperback
Jun 23, 2009 · 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.
- (192)
- Scribner
- $16.59
Sep 1, 2008 · DOWNTOWN OWL. by Chuck Klosterman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 2008. A debut novel that works better as cultural criticism than it does as fiction. Popular journalist Klosterman built his reputation with a musical memoir (Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, 2001) that established him as the anti-rock-critic rock critic ...
Jun 23, 2009 · 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 pro- found” (Publishers Weekly). Read more.
- Chuck Klosterman
