Bob Dylan's only fictional book, Tarantula was written in 1966 during the creative peak that produced Blonde on Blonde. Reminiscent of Dylan's best songs, it is essential reading for anyone interested in his creative processes.
Initial publication was repeatedly delayed, and Tarantula circulated for years only as a bookleg photocopied from reviewers advance proofs. Fittingly, perhaps, because this is a book that captures the tone and spirit of the turbulent times in which it was written.
Over three decades after its relase, Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" remains one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. Its sales total around 30 million copies worldwide, and it continues to sell 250 000 copies a year. In its first run, it took up residence in the US charts for a mind-boggling 724 weeks, according to recent estimates, one in five British households owns a copy.
But, as John Harris's unofficial account reveals, this is only a fraction of the story...
Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones`s debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one`s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through, The Known World is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day.
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