Time Out of Mind by Ian Bell
By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet. Then Dylan faltered. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him. 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. In the concluding volume of his groundbreaking study, Ian Bell explores the unparalleled second act in a quintessentially American career. 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.
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. This is the best biography that rock has had. -- The Financial Times
Ambitious. Bell handles Dylan brilliantly. -- The Spectator
Award-winning Bell continues his thoughtful, insightful biography of the enigmatic Mr. Dylan. There is much here to savor. 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
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. This is the best biography that rock has had. -- The Financial Times
Ambitious. Bell handles Dylan brilliantly. -- The Spectator
Award-winning Bell continues his thoughtful, insightful biography of the enigmatic Mr. Dylan. There is much here to savor. 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
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781605989204 |
| ISBN 10 | 1605989207 |
| Title | Time Out of Mind |
| Author | Ian Bell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pegasus Books |
| Year published | 2016-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 574 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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