Bob Dylan

No Direction Home

By: Robert Shelton, Elizabeth Thomson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 January 2021

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304 Pages

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Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Bob Dylan's formative years in Greenwich Village NYC, and it is the only biography that has been written with his active cooperation.

Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman - whom no other journalist has ever interviewed; to his brother, David; to childhood friends from Hibbing; to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and to Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalized on the cover of Freewheelin', among others. Concluding Dylan's story backstage during his triumphant 1978 world tour, No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and when it was finally published the book received widespread critical acclaim.

Following his Nobel Prize for Literature Award in 2016, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic. This new illustrated edition, published in the year of Dylan's 80^th birthday, includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, making it a must for all Dylan fans.

Industry Reviews

After all of these years, it still remains the definitive Dylan biography. With its subject's consent and access to a wide range of authentic sources coupled to the writer's keen eye for detail, No Direction Home transports the reader right back into those artistically febrile times.

-- God Is In The TV

Shelton's book is such an essential read amongst the crowded market of Dylan biographies... As a Dylan primer, it's in a class of its own... Simply put this is a lavishly illustrated book.

-- Americana UK

No journalist has covered Dylan's career longer or with more respect than Robert Shelton.

* New York Times *

The most accurate description of the development of Bob's musical and poetic evolution, his innovative genius and perplexity... it is impossible to deny Shelton a legacy as an authority on popular music and an emeritus on Bob Dylan.

-- xsnoize

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