Bob Dylan - Chronicles

The first volume of the long-awaited Bob Dylan autobiography, CHRONICLES, is a first-person journey through three decades. Dylan travels in time from his Minnesota youth to his 1960s Greenwich Village early years--a period of cultural upheaval whose idiosyncrasies and charming eccentricities he describes in stunning detail--and the equally rich atmosphere of 1980s New Orleans, where he records with producer Daniel Lanois. With genuine enthusiasm, Dylan relates the thrill of meeting his early heroes, like the pioneering folk singers Cisco Houston and the awe-inspiring Dave Van Ronk, and poignantly depicts his visits to the legendary, ailing Woody Guthrie. Flashing forward, Dylan also describes his outraged reaction to the continual invasion of his privacy at his Woodstock home, characterizing himself as having "very little in common with and knowing less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of," and adding, "I was more a cowpuncher than a Pied Piper." CHRONICLES emphasizes Dylan's humanity-

Key Information
Authors		Bob Dylan
Nonfiction Category		Biography & Autobiography • Music • Fiction Themes
Narrator		Sean Penn
Professional Reviews
		Literary Review: "Dylan writes beautifully, in a wry, muscular bop-prosody, rich in metaphor and hipsterese--laconic and wide-eyed with wonder at the same time."
Book Editions
		Audio - Compact DiscAbridgedOctober 05, 2004Simon & Schuster Audioworks5.75"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.4 lbs.9780743543095