Dylan: A Biography - Hardcover

Spitz, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070603308 ISBN 13: 9780070603301

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1989

Synopsis

Looks beyond the myths surrounding Dylan to chronicle his transformation from a middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota to a musical superstar and pop culture icon

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Review:

Writer Bob Spitz, author of Barefoot in Babylon, the story of the 1969 Woodstock festival, spent years researching Bob Dylan's life, interviewing people who had known him ranging back to his earliest days in Hibbing, Minnesota. Spitz did get people to talk on the record, and while his book collects myriad quotes from Dylan associates, the overall tone of Dylan: A Biography tends to veer toward being unaccountably mean-spirited. The book does document the recollections of some people important in Dylan's life, but it's an uneven read thanks to the persistently negative tone and Spitz's penchant for writing scenes in a hipster style that usually tends to work against the subject (who is, after all, more than hip enough on his own). --Robert McNamara

About the Author:

Bob Spitz is the author of The Beatles, a New York Times bestseller. His articles appear regularly in almost every important magazine and newspaper. He lives in Darien, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0070603308
• ISBN 13: 9780070603301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 639