Chronicles: Volume One (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743244589)

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.

Author: Bob Dylan
ISBN-10: 0743244583
ISBN-13: 9780743244589
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 35
New York Times 10/30/2005 pg. 24
Christian Century 05/31/2005 pg. 36
People Weekly 04/20/2009 pg. 52
Village Voice 12/23/2009 pg. 28