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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably essentially the most influential singer-songwriter within the u . s ., Bob Dylan.

“I’d come from a protracted tactics off and had began a protracted tactics down. However now future used to be approximately to occur itself. I felt love it used to be taking a look proper at me and no one else.”

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Extent One, his exceptional ebook exploring crucial junctures in his lifestyles and profession. Via Dylan’s eyes and open thoughts, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, whilst he first arrives in Long island. Dylan’s New York is a paranormal town of chances—smoky, nightlong events; literary awakenings; temporary loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated via jabs of recollections, penetrating and difficult. With the ebook’s facet journeys to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and issues west, Chronicles: Extent One is an intimate and extremely private recollection of odd occasions.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Extent One is a spell binding window on Bob Dylan’s feelings and impacts. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: beneficiant of spirit, engaged, fanciful, and rhythmic. Using his extraordinary presents of storytelling and the beautiful expressiveness which can be the hallmarks of his track, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Extent One right into a poignant mirrored image on lifestyles, and the folk and puts that assisted in shaping the person and the artwork.