Dylan: A Biography / Bob Spitz

Bob Dilan - biografija

Njujork, SAD 1989. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, ilustrovano, 639 strana + strane sa fotografijama.
Napomena: na predlistu potpis prethodnog vlasnika i trag polivanja vodom na samom vrhu strane (kao na fotografiji); ako se to izuzme, knjiga je veoma dobro / odlično očuvana.

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Writer Bob Spitz, author of Barefoot in Babylon, the story of the 1969 Woodstock festival, spent years researching Bob Dylan's life, interviewing people who had known him ranging back to his earliest days in Hibbing, Minnesota. Spitz did get people to talk on the record, and while his book collects myriad quotes from Dylan associates, the overall tone of Dylan: A Biography tends to veer toward being unaccountably mean-spirited. The book does document the recollections of some people important in Dylan's life, but it's an uneven read thanks to the persistently negative tone and Spitz's penchant for writing scenes in a hipster style that usually tends to work against the subject (who is, after all, more than hip enough on his own). --Robert McNamara

"No other book captures it so well, understands so well. . . . "―Greil Marcus

Bob Spitz takes his place. . . among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and at times ruthless pursuit of superstardom. ―Boston Herald

"The great strength of this biography, apart from the massiveness of Spitz's research, is its respect for Dylan's talent, and an understanding of his social and musical talent. "―London Sunday Telegraph

Bob Spitz is best known for Barefoot in Babylon, his eye-opening account of the Woodstock music festival. Before that, he represented Bruce Springsteen and Elton John, for which he was awarded four gold records. The author of hundreds of articles, Spitz has been published in Life, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mirabella, and the Washington Post. He lives in New York City with his wife and is currently at work on a novel and two books of nonfiction.

"Bob Spitz takes his place . . . among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and at times ruthless pursuit of superstardom. "