Author: Dylan, Bob

USA

Published on 19 September 2005 by SIMON & SCHUSTER in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 304 pages
195 x 107 x 24 | 214g

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe 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.

'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