Book description
This new edition of Howard Sounes' classic and definitive biography
of Bob Dylan now offers a new chapter that brings Dylan's story fully
up to date for his seventieth birthday. First published to
international critical acclaim in 2001, it gives a complete picture of
the man as well as of the artist and performer. Based on in-depth
original research,including hundreds of interviews with Dylan's
closest associates, Down the Highway now also contains a fresh
section covering the artist's most recent projects.
A compelling, engagingly fast-paced and revelatory life, it takes
the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining
town to the status he enjoys today as the leading poet-troubadour of
popular song, and one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.
Howard Sounes is the author of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the
Arms of a Crazy Life (1999) , Fred & Rose(1995), the bestselling
account of the lives and crimes of Fred and Rosemary West, and Fab: an
Intimate Life of Paul McCartney (2010). He lives in London.
www. howardsounes. com
