Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1605989207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 574 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then Dylan faltered. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet. The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. It is a tale of redemption, of an act of creative will against the odds, and of a writer who refused to fade away.Time Out of Mind is the story of the latest, perhaps the last, of the many Bob Dylans.. In the concluding volume of his groundbreaking study, Ian Bell explores the unparalleled second act in a quintessentially American career. in the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the “voice of a generation” began to sound irrelevant, a tale told to grandchildren.Yet in the autumn of 1997, something remarkable happened. Having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him
A must for Dylan fans.” (Booklist (starred review))“A fluid biography of a man and musician whose ongoing personal narrative is as intricate and unique as his epic songs.” (Publishers Weekly) . “Ambitious. There is much here to savor. Bell handles Dylan brilliantly.” (The Spectator)“Unmissable.” (Mail On Sunday)“Forget F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dictum about there being no second acts in American lives. Time Out Of Mind, part two of Ian Bell’s magisterial biography of Bob Dylan, gives us a third and a fourth and sundry other acts in an ongoing drama. Dylan. This is the best biography that rock has had.” (The Financial Times)“Award-winning Bell continues his thoughtful, insightful biography of the enigmatic Mr
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. . He is a columnist with the Herald and the Sunday Herald in Edinburgh
"Very good but also (unfortunately) flawed" according to R. Herz. Just finished listing to Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan, by Ian Bell. It is a really good, well-written book on the 2nd half (post-60's) career of Bob Dylan. Bell seems to have pulled up every available fact on the artist & tries hard to put the events in his career in context of things happening in America. But Bell has an incredible bias against some of the music Dylan made and again. is a wonderful writer, with great insights into his subject and It is difficult to pan this book. Ian Bell, as in his previous book on Dylan, is a wonderful writer, with great insights into his subject and a meticulous sense of research. Having read just about everything on Bob Dylan, Bell's two books are undoubtedly among the better efforts I've read. However, as another reviewer has pointed out, it is also easy to be dissuaded by Mr. Bell's constant slide . JWA said The Best on Bob ("The Best on Bob (2)" according to JWA. If Dylan amazes you, inspires you, infuriates you, confuses you or speaks to you, here you will find the driving forces of the life behind the work. The portrait is Cubist, and invites the reader to revisit Dylan's entire body of work through the various perspectives of his 'life of imagination'. Ian Bell is knowledgable, neither uncritical nor awed by genius, but ultimately sympathetic in his u. ). If Dylan amazes you, inspires you, infuriates you, confuses you or speaks to you, here you will find the driving forces of the life behind the work. The portrait is Cubist, and invites the reader to revisit Dylan's entire body of work through the various perspectives of his 'life of imagination'. Ian Bell is knowledgable, neither uncritical nor awed by genius, but ultimately sympathetic in his u