Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. 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.īy turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough.
Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities - smoky, nightlong parties literary awakenings transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. 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. But now destiny was about to manifest itself.
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down.
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