Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Mystic River and Milk, and received Academy Award nominations as Best Actor for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, and I Am Sam. He has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director on over one hundred theater and film productions. His journalism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and HuffPo. This is his first novel.
'A book which measures up to -- and in many respects surpasses --
the highest hopes anyone could have had of it . . . The narrator of
CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE turns out to be a superbly candid and
engaging character, with a sharp descriptive eye . . . and a
writing style pitched somewhere between Kurt Vonnegut at his most
dryly aphoristic and a grown up Holden Caulfied . . . If you've
always wondered how this man transformed the supposedly antique
certainties of folk music into the soundtrack to the most
self-consciously forward looking of decades, this book has the
answer . . . Dylan's willingness . . . to be a man out of time . .
. combined with a rare insight into the moment he was in . . . The
power of that combination echoes down through the decades as
clearly in these pages as in any song you might care to mention'
Ben Thompson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'A startling event... [Chronicles] shows Dylan's extraordinary
command of language, married in the book to an uncanny recall of
events and a masterly narrative sensibility' THE OBSERVER
'An extremely good book indeed, actually a great one. If you are
not weeping with gratitude by the end, then frankly, the age has
passed you by . . . I cannot remember a book that has made me
happier than this one' Bryan Appleyard, SUNDAY TIMES
'Dylan's thoughtful, beautiful Chronicles has taken everyone by
surprise. Who'd have thought that Dylan, whose life has been
blighted and distorted by his fans, would write such a great book
about loving - and devouring - art?' Nick Hornby, THE GUARDIAN
'Dylan's writing never loses its richness, its sense of crystalline
observation. He's unexpectedly frank about his own shortcomings -
but not too frank. Throughout, a careful balance has been struck
between elusiveness and revelation. Readers hoping to gain
admittance to Dylan's inner sanctum may be surprised by how far in
they are allowed to venture' John Preston, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'I just can't put it down. I feel as though Dylan, my favourite
artist, was talking to me personally. I loved the way he talked
about how it felt when he first arrived in New York. I felt the
same in London at the start of my career' Leo Sayer, SUNDAY
EXPRESS
'In 1966, Dylan was the counter-culture's Jesus and crazed bums
were clambering over his Woodstock roof posing a threat to his
kids. When you put it like that (and in CHRONICLES, Dylan did)
there's no wonder he was pissed off. Lucid and engaging, rendered
in gorgeous prose, his first volume of reminiscences was full of
such glimpses into its author's humanity, while Dylan's humbly
expressed enthusiasms sent readers scurrying onto Amazon to order
works by Thucydides and Roy Orbison. Volume 2 cannot come soon
enough' MOJO, BOOK OF THE YEAR
'The greatest music book this year, of course, is the Bob Dylan
Chronicles Volume One - a cultural event so notable I was genuinely
bemused as to why it didn't make the 6 O'Clock news' Caitlin Moran,
THE TIMES
'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' THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH
'Undoubtedly the best-received autobiography of the year' THE
SUNDAY TIMES
"A remarkable achievement, and like Henry Miller's best personal
writings, it is a story that opens up the times that it portrays,
and then reveals the possibilities of the human spirit." -- Mikal
Gilmore, "Rolling Stone"
There's no word yet on how far this first volume goes, but we'll bet that Dylan doesn't leave any answers blowin' in the wind. Look for the complete Lyrics (ISBN 0-7432-2627-8. $45), pubbing simultaneously. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
'A book which measures up to -- and in many respects surpasses -- the highest hopes anyone could have had of it . . . The narrator of CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE turns out to be a superbly candid and engaging character, with a sharp descriptive eye . . . and a writing style pitched somewhere between Kurt Vonnegut at his most dryly aphoristic and a grown up Holden Caulfied . . . If you've always wondered how this man transformed the supposedly antique certainties of folk music into the soundtrack to the most self-consciously forward looking of decades, this book has the answer . . . Dylan's willingness . . . to be a man out of time . . . combined with a rare insight into the moment he was in . . . The power of that combination echoes down through the decades as clearly in these pages as in any song you might care to mention'
Ben Thompson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
THE OBSERVER
Bryan Appleyard, SUNDAY TIMES
Nick Hornby, THE GUARDIAN
John Preston, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Leo Sayer, SUNDAY EXPRESS
MOJO, BOOK OF THE YEAR
Caitlin Moran, THE TIMES
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
THE SUNDAY TIMES
-- Mikal Gilmore, "Rolling Stone"
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