Chronicles. Volume One.

DYLAN, Bob.

ISBN 10: 0743228154 / ISBN 13: 9780743228152

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004

About this Item

First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, yellow paper-covered boards. 295 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bob Dylan is the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the Ten Best Books of 2004. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In September 2019, Chronicles was chosen by Guardian UK critics as one of the 100 Best Books published in the 21st Century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chronicles. Volume One.
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743228154
• ISBN 13: 9780743228152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Memoir
  • Music

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Synopsis

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

“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 Chronicles: 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, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: 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 Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

About the Author

Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.