By Bob Dylan
Simon & Schuster £35
If you read Bob Dylan's magnificent memoir Chronicles: Volume One or the sleeve notes to his album World Gone Wrong, you'll know what to expect in his new book.
As you might imagine from a songwriter so wildly inventive, freewheeling and mercurial, Bob Dylan's prose is splendidly unconventional, full of surreal, crackling flights of fancy and vivid, sense-impressionist memories.
This is the same – in fact, it's even reflects on 66 records with which he feels a powerful connection. It's a varied assembly, from old show tunes such as to vintage blues, ballads, country music and unlikely selections from the Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello and even by the Clash.
