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The Time out of Mind Reprint Edition
Author(s): Ian Bell (Author)
- Publisher: Pegasus Books
- Publication Date: December 7, 2015
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 574 pages
- ISBN-10: 1605989207
- ISBN-13: 9781605989204
Book Description
By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet.Then Dylan faltered. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him. in the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the “voice of a generation” began to sound irrelevant, a tale told to grandchildren.Yet in the autumn of 1997, something remarkable happened. Having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package. in the concluding volume of his ground- breaking study, ian Bell explores the unparalleled second act in a quintessentially american career. it is a tale of redemption, of an act of creative will against the odds, and of a writer who refused to fade away.Time Out of Mind is the story of the latest, perhaps the last, of the many Bob Dylans.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Unmissable.”
– Mail On Sunday
– The Financial Times
– Mail On Sunday
“Forget F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dictum about there being no second acts in American lives.
Time Out Of Mind, part two of Ian Bell’s magisterial biography of Bob Dylan, gives us a third and a fourth and sundry other acts in an ongoing drama. This is the best biography that rock has had.”– The Financial Times
“Ambitious. Bell handles Dylan brilliantly.”
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“Award-winning Bell continues his thoughtful, insightful biography of the enigmatic Mr. Dylan. There is much here to savor. A must for Dylan fans.”
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“A fluid biography of a man and musician whose ongoing personal narrative is as intricate and unique as his epic songs.”
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About the Author
Born, raised and educated in Edinburgh, Ian Bell is a past holder of the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism and the award-winning author of Dreams of Exile, a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. Formerly the editor of The Observer, he is a columnist with the Herald and the Sunday Herald.
