Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan - Softcover

Howard Sounes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857520253 ISBN 13: 9780857520258

Publisher: Doubleday Books, 2011

Synopsis

This new edition of Howard Sounes' classic and definitive biography of Bob Dylan now offers a new chapter that brings Dylan's story fully up to date for his seventieth birthday. First published to international critical acclaim in 2001, it gives a complete picture of the man as well as of the artist and performer. Based on in-depth original research,including hundreds of interviews with Dylan's closest associates, Down the Highway now also contains a fresh section covering the artist's most recent projects. A compelling, engagingly fast-paced and revelatory life, it takes the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to the status he enjoys today as the leading poet-troubadour of popular song, and one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Sounes is the author of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (1999) , Fred & Rose(1995), the bestselling account of the lives and crimes of Fred and Rosemary West, and Fab: an Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (2010). He lives in London. www.howardsounes.com.

Review:

"Engagingly written and scrupulously researched." Observer "The benchmark by which all future Dylan biographies will be judged." USA Today "Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly." Boston Globe "Blows away more of the fog than anyone else has managed to do." -- Barney Hoskyns Independent on Sunday "Sets a standard few rock'n'roll chronicles have attained." Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857520253
• ISBN 13: 9780857520258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576