Downtown Owl

Downtown Owl
Downtown Owl: A Novel  
Author(s) Chuck Klosterman
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Dark comedy
Publisher Scribner
Publication date September 16, 2008
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 288
ISBN ISBN 1-4165-4418-6, ISBN 1-4165-4419-4
OCLC Number 180755981
Dewey Decimal 813/.6 22
LC Classification PS3611.L67 D69 2008
Preceded by Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Followed by Eating the Dinosaur

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]

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Plot outline

The story describes the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, in which three characters are intangibly connected. Horace is an old man who spends his afternoons in the local coffee shop with other old men, shaking dice to see who pays for coffee, and talking about politics, religion, and memorable Owl football teams of the past. Mitch is a stoic high school backup quarterback who is depressed for no apparent reason. Julia is the newest resident of Owl. She moved to the small town to teach history and spends much of her free time at the local bars (where she meets local celebrity Vance Druid). The town has about 850 residents and is semi-isolated from 1980s music and culture. As a climax, the three main characters are caught in a sudden blizzard--Horace and Julia stuck in their cars and Mitch outdoors.

In the end, Mitch dies of exposure in a vast field, and Julia dies of carbon monoxide poisoning in her car. Only Horace manages to crawl back to his home and survive. The novel ends with a newspaper article about the death of star athlete Chris "Grendel" Sellers, which inaccurately depicts him as a kind human being and overshadows the deaths of the other characters completely. Even he is marginalized as the article is cut off mid sentence by the phrase "continued on page C11"'

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