|
 |
|
Positively Main Street Bob Dylan’s Minnesota Toby Thompson PRESS: |
|
|
A young writer uncovers Bob Dylan's past, back when music mattered. In the late sixties, Toby Thompson enthusiastically took off for Hibbing, Minnesota, in search of Bob Dylan’s roots. Thompson grooves on the story of Dylan’s beginnings, meeting the locals who knew Bobby Zimmerman the loner, not Bob Dylan the legend. With unprecedented access to Dylan’s English and music teachers, his high school girlfriend Echo Helstrom, and countless neighbors and relatives, Thompson discovers the real person behind the mythology Dylan created. This updated version includes an interview with the author, previously unpublished photographs, and a new preface by Thompson. “That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn.” —Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969 “Toby Thompson was there first.” —Greil Marcus “A very important book about a very important person.” —Lillian Roxon, author of The Encyclopedia of Rock “A first-rate novelistic account of Thompson’s own psyche as he uncovers the Dylan few people know. A new look at young Dylan done with kindness, enthusiasm and superb language.” —William Kennedy, Look Magazine “Essential reading. Thompson, unprecedentedly, managed to interview not only Echo Helstrom, almost certainly the ‘Girl of the North Country,’ but Dylan’s mother and brother, his uncle, his friends.” —Michael Gray’s Bob Dylan Encyclopedia “Dylan fans will not want to miss this book.” —Sioux City Journal “Well worth the attention of anyone who has fallen under the spell of the boy from the North Country.” —Los Angeles Times “Enough to satisfy any Dylan fan with all the gossip he’ll ever need.” —Huntsville Times “Positively Main Street is positively entertaining in a Hunter S. Thompson kind of way . . . Positively Main Street is a free-wheelin’, fun, and quick read that is surprisingly informative." —John Bream, Star Tribune “Positively Main Street is, with the exception of Dylan’s autobiography, perhaps the most readable and necessary volume on the folk icon. The book’s enduring appeal is Thompson’s excited voice and willingness to test New Journalism’s early possibilities.” —City Pages “The energy of Positively Main Street will put a strong wind back in your sails, and a smile of affirmation on your face.” —The Tapestry Magazine “Thompson has every reason to be satisfied with the book. It is indeed a remarkable achievement.” —The Bridge Toby Thompson is associate professor of creative writing at Penn State University and the author of Saloon and The ‘60s Report. He has also written for numerous magazines including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and Esquire. 192 pages | 8 photos | 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 | 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS |
||
$15.95 paper