{"title":"Robert Polito","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"after-the-flood-inside-bob-dylans-memory-palace","title":"After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBlending biography and archival history,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter the Flood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003easks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counter-culture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s—only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan’s concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative. That is not this story. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter the Flood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals Dylan’s output during the last three decades as his most ambitious yet. Across an abecedarium of chapters surveying his albums, performances, films and books since the early 1990s, celebrated poet and biographer Robert Polito shows how Dylan evolved a late musical style that has embodied and resisted its era–interweaving Ovid and Americana, film noir and the Civil War. Imaginatively researched, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter the Flood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both an essential revision and continuation of the Dylan saga.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W.W Norton","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56813284294987,"sku":"R5503-9429","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71t5y6l2OzL._SY522.jpg?v=1773680645"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/robert-polito.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}