{"product_id":"bob-dylan-chronicles-volume-1","title":"Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So writes Bob Dylan in \u003ci\u003eChronicles: Volume One,\u003c\/i\u003e his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eChronicles: Volume One\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, \u003ci\u003eChronicles: Volume One\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChronicles: Volume One\u003c\/i\u003e into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e stunned everyone . . . [it's] clear, apparently frank, unremittingly serious about his musical influences and exquisitely written. It is, in fact, a masterpiece' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Entertaining and surprisingly deprecating... The book's structure is elegant . . \u003ci\u003e. Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is tautly written, vividly cinematic, and funny . . . a courageous little book' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'There is something on every page, in every paragraph, that demands attention . . .  In rock and roll terms, this book is like discovering the lost diaries of Shakespeare. It may be the most extraordinarily intimate autobiography by a 20th-century legend' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305317409150,"sku":"NW9780743478649","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780743478649.jpg?v=1778678116","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/bob-dylan-chronicles-volume-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}