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In Dylan Town
David Gaines
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Description for In Dylan Town
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: AVH; B. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 525.
For fifty years, the music, words, story, and fans of Bob Dylan have fascinated David Gaines. As a son, a husband, a father, a teacher, and a passionate lover of the literary in all its guises, he has pursued the poetic fusion of knowledge and emotion all his life. More often than not, Dylan’s lyrics and music have expressed that fusion for him, and so he has encouraged others to acknowledge the musician or writer or painter or director or actor or athlete who matters deeply (perhaps a bit mysteriously) to them, and to deploy that enigmatic passion in ... Read more
For fifty years, the music, words, story, and fans of Bob Dylan have fascinated David Gaines. As a son, a husband, a father, a teacher, and a passionate lover of the literary in all its guises, he has pursued the poetic fusion of knowledge and emotion all his life. More often than not, Dylan’s lyrics and music have expressed that fusion for him, and so he has encouraged others to acknowledge the musician or writer or painter or director or actor or athlete who matters deeply (perhaps a bit mysteriously) to them, and to deploy that enigmatic passion in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609383633
SKU
V9781609383633
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About David Gaines
David Gaines fancies himself a bit of what Bob Dylan once called “a song and dance man.” He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas; went to California in the sixties and law school in the seventies; and has been in the groves of academe ever since. He has taught American literature, film, and music in Harlem, at The University of ... Read more
Reviews for In Dylan Town
“A life within a life. David Gaines’s portrait of one of our great artists is at once an appreciation, an assimilation, and a stirring memoir of a very fine writer so very deeply touched by another.” —T. C. Boyle, author, The Harder They Come “For decades of his well-lived life, David Gaines has found Bob Dylan’s music ... Read more