Downtown Owl
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Downtown Owl

A Novel

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Downtown Owl

A Novel

About this book

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).

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781416544197
eBook ISBN
9781416580652
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Author Bio
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Chapter 1: August 15, 1983
  9. Chapter 2: August 25, 1983
  10. Chapter 3: August 28, 1983
  11. Chapter 4: August 29, 1983
  12. Chapter 5: September 2, 1983
  13. Chapter 6: September 8, 1983
  14. Chapter 7: September 9, 1983
  15. Chapter 8: September 26, 1983
  16. Chapter 9: October 12, 1983
  17. Chapter 10: October 17, 1983
  18. Chapter 11: October 22, 1983
  19. Chapter 12: October 26, 1983
  20. Chapter 13: October 29, 1983
  21. Chapter 14: November 1, 1983
  22. Chapter 15: November 8, 1983
  23. Chapter 16: November 21, 1983
  24. Chapter 17: November 22, 1983
  25. Chapter 18: November 23, 1983
  26. Chapter 19: November 24, 1983
  27. Chapter 20: November 25, 1983
  28. Chapter 21: December 9, 1983
  29. Chapter 22: December 21, 1983
  30. Chapter 23: December 22, 1983
  31. Chapter 24: December 28, 1983
  32. Chapter 25: New Year’s day, 1984
  33. Chapter 26: January 5, 1984
  34. Chapter 27: January 7, 1984
  35. Chapter 28: January 11, 1984
  36. Chapter 29: January 17, 1984
  37. Chapter 30: January 20, 1984
  38. Chapter 31: January 23, 1984
  39. Chapter 32: January 26, 1984
  40. Chapter 33: January 29, 1984
  41. Chapter 34: January 31, 1984
  42. Chapter 35: February 3, 1984
  43. Chapter 36: February 4, 1984
  44. Chapter 37: February 4, 1984
  45. Chapter 38: February 4, 1984
  46. Chapter 39: February 4, 1984
  47. Chapter 40: February 4, 1984
  48. Chapter 41: February 4, 1984
  49. Chapter 42: February 4, 1984
  50. Chapter 43: February 4, 1984
  51. Chapter 44: February 4, 1984
  52. Chapter 45: February 4, 1984
  53. Chapter 46: February 4, 1984
  54. Chapter 47: February 4, 1984
  55. Chapter 48: February 4, 1984
  56. Chapter 49: February 4, 1984
  57. Acknowledgments
  58. ‘But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past’ Excerpt
  59. 'Eating the Dinosaur' Teaser
  60. Footnotes

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