Product Details
Simon & Schuster, October 2004
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0743228154
ISBN-13: 9780743228152
Awards and Nominations
- National Book Award Finalist
Description
"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."
Bob Dylan's Chronicle: Volume One explores the critical junctions 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 side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.
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.
"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
Word Magazine, October 15, 2009
...2009 - 4:59pm by Brett Milano is very good especially if you're into your bootlegs and Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles' is also a great read even if you don't like Dylan. 0 Up Down Login or register to post comments Randlepmcmurphy | 15 October ...
Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2009
...bat an eye. Another aggravation is the fashionably non-chronological blueprint of this memoir. The strategy worked well for Bob Dylan's "Chronicles, Vol. 1," but here it seems like an excuse to sidestep most of the history of the Police. ...
Yahoo! Music, September 18, 2009
...and prose of the books The Basketball Diaries and Living At The Movies have become cult favorites as chronicles of urban angst celebrating New York City's mean streets.'I want the angel whose touch don't miss / Then the blood comes through ...
Winston-Salem Journal, August 23, 2009
...lot of yelling instead of healthy exercise. Admittedly, Tom Waits is even more a mysterious human force than Bob Dylan, but it should be obvious that the biographer should attempt to understand the subject's songs, rather than the artist ...
MusicOMH, May 6, 2009
...- but in the emotional voice he adopts. It's the same voice that narrates his recent autobiography Chronicles: an egalitarian, unpretentious, resolutely American voice; the voice of a careworn, hard-working regular guy whose manual trade ...
Bolton News, April 30, 2009
...found yet.? This enthusiasm for life comes through in his new book, Thank You For The Days, which chronicles the most exciting and important moments in his life so far. More of a collection of snapshots than a true autobiography, Thank You ...
Duluth News Tribune, April 16, 2009
...His aim in life is to serve the Iron Range communities and the people he loves. He often chronicles his experiences on the Range on his blog, MinnesotaBrown.com, and in his new book, â??Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range.â? He calls ...
Library Journal, April 11, 2009
...and deported to Siberia under Stalin. The authors reconstruction of her familial history proceeds on two tracks: she chronicles her grandparents and parents daily struggles while documenting a harrowing chapter in Latvian history. The ...
The Statesman, April 11, 2009
...In Im Not There, the role of Bob Dylan is essayed by six Hollywood stars, including Cate Blanchett Are you waiting for Bob Dylans new album? Meanwhile, watch a film dedicated to the legendary singer. Im Not There ...
The Times, March 28, 2009
...this kind of detail - biographical of a sort, but absent of any verifiable fact - that comprises Bob Dylan's Chronicles, and suggests a better strategy for dealing with Waits: whimsy. Even so, there's plenty to tell, and those interested in ...
London Free Press, March 6, 2009
...20th century is established in the movie's most spellbinding sequence: an opening credits montage -- set to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' -- that places these vigilantes in historical context. From here, Snyder adheres ...
Guardian Unlimited, January 23, 2009
...the stream down towards the ocean in a one-room flat above a drug store in Dogtown, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan's life was changed - according to his book Chronicles - by hearing a Ramblin' Jack LP.) As a piece of travel writing, It Still ...
Bob Dylan's Books
-
Hollywood Foto-RhetoricBob Dylan's rediscovered prose poems, inspired by Barry Feinstein's Hollywood photos, is a never-before-published work by an American legend.Read More -
Forever YoungThe classic anthem to youth from Bob Dylan, one of our best-loved songwriters, re-imagined as a picture book by award-winning illustrator Paul Rogers.Read More
-
The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966The Bob Dylan Scrapbook is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s. Created in association with Bob...Read More
-
Displaying 1 of
