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.
