Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition
$29.97
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2025
Summary
Decoding Dylan: Why the Bard Still Matters
“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062937988 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0062937987 |
| Author: | Richard F. Thomas |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 135mm |
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Critics Review
“A highly informed, yet intimately personal celebration of one of our most important living writers.” – NPR
“A nimble gloss on Dylan’s lyric genius.” – USA Today
“A masterstroke of literary detective work … and an exciting examination of an artist’s enigmatic mind.” – Booklist (starred review)
“Masterful, fun, passionate, learned, profound, and there’s nothing like it. Thomas shows why Dylan deserves his Nobel–and how he hearkens back to, and enlists, the classics. Fantastic reading, full of gems.” – Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University
About The Author
Richard F. Thomas
Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, a Bob Dylan expert, and the creator of a freshman seminar at Harvard on Bob Dylan.
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