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Dylan
This pictorial biography covers the more-than-30-year career of Bob Dylan in hundreds of photographs and a text that is comprehensive and detailed, revealing and restrained, well-researched and non-reverential. 9" x 12". B&W & color photos.
- GenresBiographyNonfiction
192 pages, Hardcover
Published September 24, 1992
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Richard Williams
26 books8 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Richard Williams is the chief sports writer for the Guardian and the bestselling author of The Death of Ayrton Senna and Enzo Ferrari: A Life. He is a lifelong fan of Nottingham Forest.
Richard Williams is the chief sports writer for the Guardian and the bestselling author of The Death of Ayrton Senna and Enzo Ferrari: A Life. He is a lifelong fan of Nottingham Forest.
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June 4, 2015
Review title: Coffeetable compendium
Dylan played the character Alias in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and an odd fictionalized movie biography called "I'm Not There" played on the concept of Dylan's shape-shifting by having widely disparate actors play parts of his character. So the concept of Dylan as a shifting set of aliases is hardly new, and this coffee-table effort doesn't go deep enough to forge any new connections.
It does include some really nice pictures, but is hampered by its publication too close to the music of the post-gospel period to give it the mature consideration some of it deserves (some of it frankly, still isn't very strong, and hampered by bad production choices). Of course, it is impossible to fault a book for being published when it was, except that after Blood on the Tracks the book focuses basically on quick reviews of the music and loses focus on the man behind the aliases.
So unless you are a deep fan of Dylan searching to pad your bookshelf and can pick it up cheap, this probably merits a pass.
Dylan played the character Alias in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and an odd fictionalized movie biography called "I'm Not There" played on the concept of Dylan's shape-shifting by having widely disparate actors play parts of his character. So the concept of Dylan as a shifting set of aliases is hardly new, and this coffee-table effort doesn't go deep enough to forge any new connections.
It does include some really nice pictures, but is hampered by its publication too close to the music of the post-gospel period to give it the mature consideration some of it deserves (some of it frankly, still isn't very strong, and hampered by bad production choices). Of course, it is impossible to fault a book for being published when it was, except that after Blood on the Tracks the book focuses basically on quick reviews of the music and loses focus on the man behind the aliases.
So unless you are a deep fan of Dylan searching to pad your bookshelf and can pick it up cheap, this probably merits a pass.
November 2, 2007
I spent $40 on this book. I was 11 and saved and saved to buy it. It's in mint condition. I read it but always put it back in it's original plastic. I love it. It's a great book. Has great pictures.
June 29, 2008
Got given this as a gift. Refugee from a library book purge. Excellent coffee table size photos, most of which I haven't seen before.
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