Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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2007
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For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent. 21 days later, after three relationships, an encounter with various cottonmouth snakes, and a night spent snorting cocaine in a graveyard, Klosterman started to order his thoughts on American culture and the meaning of celebrity.

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For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent. 21 days later, after three relationships, an encounter with various cottonmouth snakes, and a night spent snorting cocaine in a graveyard, Klosterman started to order his thoughts on American culture and the meaning of celebrity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0571223982
ISBN 13: 9780571223985
Book Overview: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman is an uproariously funny and smart meditation on life, death, celebrity, rock n roll, why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing . . . and what that means for the rest of us.

Media Reviews

'Big-hearted and direct, bright and unironic, optimistic and amiable, self-deprecating and reassuring.' Bret Easton Ellis

Author Bio

Chuck Klosterman is the author of the legendary memoir, Fargo Rock City, and Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs. He was born in North Dakota and lives in New York City.