num_pages: 320
description: Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilarious 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.
language: English
title: Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
titlecomplete: Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
genres: Pop Culture, Essays, Biography, Cultural, Music, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 13663
places: Wyndmere, North Dakota
publisher: Scribner