No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan

Robert Shelton
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Robert Shelton wrote the rave review of Bob Dylan in the New York Times that is generally credited with being the piece that "discovered" him in 1961. Twenty-five years later, Shelton, who had followed Dylan's career faithfully, published No Direction Home . Here is the "empathetic and rather magnificent" ( Washington Post Book World ) story of Dylan, musician and phenomenon.
Genres: MusicBiographyNonfictionMusic BiographyBiography MemoirPoetryMemoirThe United States Of America20th CenturyAutobiography
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