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Chronicles

Volume One

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Chronicles

By: Bob Dylan
Narrated by: Sean Penn
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 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

“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.”

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, 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, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One 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 Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.©2004 Bob Dylan; (P)2004 Simon & Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Art & Literature Authors Entertainment & Celebrities Music New York Witty
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A wonderful listen and hopefully most of it is true. Sean Penn is quite monotone though

Insightful from a reflectove and poetic human

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This is like having the man in your company a great listen bring on the next volume .the real deal.

Puts Dylan into perspective

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Very in depth view into his mysterious life, The different party of his life is cleverly separated and contrasted. The film clearly copied this theme for the movie.

Very in depth

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Enjoyed throughout. Not a dull moment. Surprised not longer but less is usually if not always more. Will there be a volume II? Doesn't matter. still searching for Traveling Wilburys volume II after all these years :-)

One of my favourite artists. Great read / listen

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loved it.
interesting. Well narrated. I learned loads as Bob Dylan was before my time.

awesome book

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