Downtown Owl
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Release: September 16, 2008
Tagline: A Novel
Publisher: Scribner
Genre: Fiction, Small Town
ISBN-10: 1416544186
ISBN-13: 978-1416544180
Main Character(s): Mitch, Julia, Horace, John, Cubby
Synopsis: A tale based on a deadly 1984 North Dakota blizzard follows the experiences of a small rural community devoted to its high-school athletics and its citizens’ minor scandals, until a dangerous storm impacts the town in unsettling and powerful ways.
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Quotes and Lines
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation. – Julia
There is no feeling that can match the emotive intensity of an attraction devoid of explanation. – Julia
Society is so confused, Mitch thought. Everyone wanted to become the person they were already pretending to be. – Mitch
They were thankful for things they were not conscious of. – Mitch
It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally. – Mitch
And what was money? It was merely a temptation to commit wrong. Rich people weren’t happy. They were generally miserable and usually confused. Most of the time they didn’t even realize they were rich; almost without exception, they wrongly viewed themselves as middle-class. But there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you’re rich and insecure or poor and misinformed. – Horace
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. – Horace