**Now in paperback and with a new foreword, a kaleidoscopic look at the
many faces of Bob Dylan, legendary folk singer-songwriter and winner of
the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
**
For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in
rock's shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important,
beloved, and endlessly examined, yet he remains something of an enigma.
Who, we ask, is the "real" Bob Dylan? Is he Bobby Zimmerman, yearning to
escape Hibbing, Minnesota, or the Woody Guthrie wannabe playing
Greenwich Village haunts? Folk Messiah, Born-Again Bob, Late-Elvis
Dylan, Jack Fate, or Living National Treasure? In Who Is That Man?
David Dalton--cultural historian, journalist, screenwriter, and
novelist--paints a revealing portrait of the rock icon, ingeniously
exposing the three-card monte games he plays with his persona.
Guided by Dalton's cutting-edge insights and myth-debunking point of
view, Who Is That Man? follows Dylan's imaginative life, integrating
actual events with Dylan's words and those of the people who know him
most intimately. Drawing upon Dylan's friends and fellow
eyewitnesses--including Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Peter
Stampfel, Larry "Ratso" Sloman, Eric Andersen, Nat Hentoff, Andrew
Oldham, Nat Finkelstein, and others--this book will provide a new
perspective on the man, the myth, and the musical era that forged them
both.
