Chronicles: Volume One - Softcover

Dylan, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743284720 ISBN 13: 9780743284721

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Synopsis

""I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."" So writes Bob Dylan in " Volume One, " his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, " Volume One" is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, " Volume One" is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns " Volume One" into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Dylan is one of the most lauded and greatest loved songwriters and performers of all time. His particular brand of music first caught the public's attention in the 1960s, when he became something of a chronicler of the American conscience and cultural unrest. His remarkable career in music and literature continues to this day.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743284720
• ISBN 13: 9780743284721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320