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Chronicles: Volume One Reprint Edition
Author(s): Bob Dylan (Author)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: September 13, 2005
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0743244583
- ISBN-13: 9780743244589
Book Description
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 Reprint Edition is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty,
Chronicles: Volume One Reprint Edition 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 Reprint Edition into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.Editorial Reviews
Review
“A remarkable achievement, and like Henry Miller’s best personal writings, it is a story that opens up the times that it portrays, and then reveals the possibilities of the human spirit.”
— Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone
— Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone
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 Reprint Edition, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
