Title

Bite Studio - Visual Editor
Random House Speakers

Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan

Ian Bell

(Enlarge Image)

Published by Mainstream Publishing, part of Mainstream

Format: Hardback

£20.00

Buy now

This book is also available as:

Availability

This product is currently not available from this site. Please check with other retailers.

Details

EAN: 9781780575735
Published: 30 Aug 2012

-

About the book

Synopsis

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms with what he did. How he did it - and why - has never been fully explored.

In Once Upon a Time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal.

Full of new insights into the legendary singer, his songs, his life and his era, the artist who invented himself in order to reinvent America is uncovered. Once Upon a Time is a biographical study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself. Dylan has become the puzzle that illuminates. Here, in the first part of a major two-volume work, the puzzle is explained.

Recommend this book

Add your recommendation

Only registered users can recommend books. Please use the buttons below to either create a new account, or sign-in to an existing account.

Register here or Sign in here

Press

What the critics say

This is the best Dylan biography yet – an imagined reliving of an already imaginary life, and a book to sit alongside Ellmann on Wilde, Richardson on Picasso, Ackroyd on Dickens
- Financial Times

Exceptional . . . [Bell] writes about Dylan's America . . . with a cultural perception that is profound, with a scrupulously gathered mass of sociological and historical information that is eclectic and wholly relevant, and with a constant, edgy zest . . . intelligent, challenging and altogether worthy of its contradictory, enigmatic subject and his insidious, utterly extraordinary songs
- The Herald

Bell's literary bent is his strength. He brings fresh insight into Dylan's verse
- Scotland on Sunday

Treads the fine line between straight reportage and engaging storytelling in expert fashion
- Hot Press

Ambitious . . . Bell handles it brilliantly
- The Spectator

About the Author

Born, raised and educated in Edinburgh, Ian Bell is a past holder of the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism and the award-winning author of Dreams of Exile, a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. Formerly the Scottish editor of The Observer, he is a columnist with The Herald and the Sunday Herald.

Ian Bell

More about Ian Bell

PageId: 43025 UserId: 5
This website makes use of cookies. See our Privacy Policy for more information.