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Chronicles

Volume One (Chronicles)

By Bob Dylan

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| Paperback | 9780743244589

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"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 cContinue

"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.

Critics

  • Maximum Bob

    Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan 256pp, Simon and Schuster, £16.99 "I went though it from cover to cover like a hurricane. Totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio." Thus Bob Dylan, 45 years after the event, recall ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Bringing it all back home

    Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan Simon and Schuster £12.99, pp292 In anticipation of his long-awaited autobiography, Dylan fans had three fears: it would be as embarrassing as his ill-fated fiction Tarantula (1966); it would be ghosted and inauthe ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Quite interesting! Naturally you have to be a Dylan's fan. <br />Now waiting for volume two.

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    jelabino said on Nov 17, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • the guy is as good an author as a songwriter!

    this is a must for anyone interested in the continuing saga of the man and his music...

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    Relativelytom said on Dec 27, 2007 | Add your feedback

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