Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan
By Ian Bell
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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 Bob Dylan accomplished in his artistic explosion upon popular culture.
In Once Upon A Time, award-winning author 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 discovered anew. Once Upon A Time is a lively investigation of a mysterious personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever trying to understand itself. Now that mystery is explained.
Ian Bell
Born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University, Ian Bell was the literary editor of the Scotsman before becoming Scottish Editor of the Observer. Dreams of Exile, published in England in 1992, was nominated for the British Nonfiction Book of the Year. Bell is the editor of the two-volume Robert Louis Stevenson--The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition, which will appear in America in 1994.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Too much approbation of the subject; too much concentration on his flaws and 'myth making'.