Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan

Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan

by HowardSounes (Author)

Synopsis

This new edition of Howard Sounes' classic and definitive biography of Bob Dylan now offers a new chapter that brings Dylan's story fully up to date for his seventieth birthday. First published to international critical acclaim in 2001, it gives a complete picture of the man as well as of the artist and performer. Based on in-depth original research,including hundreds of interviews with Dylan's closest associates, Down the Highway now also contains a fresh section covering the artist's most recent projects. A compelling, engagingly fast-paced and revelatory life, it takes the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to the status he enjoys today as the leading poet-troubadour of popular song, and one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 14 Apr 2011

ISBN 10: 0857520253
ISBN 13: 9780857520258
Book Overview: For Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, a revised and updated new edition of Howard Sounes' classic biography of the legend

Media Reviews
Engagingly written and scrupulously researched. Observer The benchmark by which all future Dylan biographies will be judged. USA Today Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly. Boston Globe Blows away more of the fog than anyone else has managed to do. -- Barney Hoskyns Independent on Sunday Sets a standard few rock'n'roll chronicles have attained. Independent
Author Bio
Howard Sounes is the author of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (1999) , Fred & Rose(1995), the bestselling account of the lives and crimes of Fred and Rosemary West, and Fab: an Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (2010). He lives in London. www.howardsounes.com.