The Dylan Companion

Two decades after Bob Dylan first came on stage in a Greenwich Village coffee house, this "Huck Finn in a corduroy cap" was filling the mammoth stadia of the global village from Wembley to Budokan. Ever since the critics have tried to define the man and his art. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman have adopted a broad spectrum of approach, from Allen Ginsberg to Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez to Frank Kermode, in this biography. "The Dylan companion" includes musicology, sociology, history and film commentary.