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Chronicles by Bob Dylan

Chronicles

Volume One

Bob Dylan

Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · September 13, 2005

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.

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A personal memoir where music, memory, and a distinctively rhythmic voice meet.
Themes
Bob Dylan’s life and career, Creative influences and artistic life, Greenwich Village in 1961
Pacing
Reflective

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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.

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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.

A Voice in Motion

A personal memoir where music, memory, and a distinctively rhythmic voice meet.

Come here for

  • Dylan’s reflections on the people and places that shaped his art
  • Literary awakenings, friendships, and a young New York full of possibility

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  • An intimate, poetic, and witty recollection
  • Side trips beyond Manhattan, including New Orleans, Woodstock, and Minnesota

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Musicians' Lives87%
Personal Memoirs49%
Composer & Musician Biographies22%

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  • Musicians' Lives
  • Lives in Entertainment
  • Writers' Lives
Authors
Bob Dylan
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
September 13, 2005
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Bob Dylan’s life and career · Creative influences and artistic life · Greenwich Village in 1961
Reading lane
Musicians' Lives