Chronicles: Volume One

Chronicles: Volume One

<b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br> <br>The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.<br><br><i>€œI€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.€</i><br> <br>So writes Bob Dylan in <i>Chronicles: Volume One,</i> his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. 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, <i>Chronicles: Volume One</i> is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.<br> <br>By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, <i>Chronicles: Volume One</i> 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 <i>Chronicles: Volume One</i> into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.