Killing Yourself to Live

85% of a True Story

Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published June 6, 2006 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-6446-4
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For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end--one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.--From publisher description.

2 editions

Subjects

  • Rock Music
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Biography And Autobiography
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Travelers
  • Popular Culture - General
  • Genres & Styles - Rock
  • Social Science / Popular Culture
  • Editors, Journalists, Publishers
  • Death
  • Rock musicians
  • Social aspects
  • United States