Chronicles

Volume 1

Bob Dylan

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01 September 2005

Music; Rock & Pop music; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR 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, this is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, this is a mesmerising window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilising his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Dylan reflects on life and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

"Chronicles stunned everyone... it's clear, apparently frank, unremittingly serious about his musical influences and exquisitely written. It is, in fact, a masterpiece." - Sunday Times

"Entertaining and surprisingly deprecating... The book's structure is elegant... Chronicles is tautly written, vividly cinematic and funny... a courageous little book." - Financial Times

"There is something on every page, in every paragraph, that demands attention... In rock and roll terms, this book is like discovering the lost diaries of Shakespeare. It may be the most extraordinarily intimate autobiography by a 20th-century legend." - Daily Telegraph

By: Bob Dylan
Imprint: Pocket
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780743478649
ISBN 10: 0743478649
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 01 September 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Bob Dylan is without question one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. He not only revolutionised popular music by incorporating poetry in his folk and rock compositions, he also helped create a more inclusive and progressive consciousness in American culture.

Reviews for Chronicles: Volume 1

'There is something on every page, in every paragraph, that demands attention . . . In rock and roll terms, this book is like discovering the lost diaries of Shakespeare. It may be the most extraordinarily intimate autobiography by a 20th-century legend' * Daily Telegraph * 'Entertaining and surprisingly deprecating... The book's structure is elegant . . . Chronicles is tautly written, vividly cinematic, and funny . . . a courageous little book' * Financial Times * 'Chronicles stunned everyone . . . [it's] clear, apparently frank, unremittingly serious about his musical influences and exquisitely written. It is, in fact, a masterpiece' * Sunday Times *