Tarantula

Bob Dylan

ISBN 10: 0025344501 / ISBN 13: 9780025344501

Published by Macmillan May 1971, 1971

About this Item

Moderate tears and chips at edges of dust jacket. Left jacket flap is present, but has become detached from front, but not yet taped back.

Seller Inventory # 1147551

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tarantula
• Publisher: Macmillan May 1971
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025344501
• ISBN 13: 9780025344501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used
• Dust Jacket Condition: Cover image not as pictured
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare/Literature

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Synopsis

Ever since its publication, Tarantula has always divided opinion, with most readers coming down in the 'anti' camp. I belong to the recalcitrant minority. Yes, it's dense, and in places it collapses into pure gibberish (and it doesn't help that the first page is probably the most impenetrable in the entire book. Stick with it, it does get better). But there are also some wonderful things in here, that could have been written by no-one else. If you find the prose sections heavy going, try starting with the letters, which are never less than entertaining and often downright hilarious. One of Dylan's lesser-known gifts is that he can be a very fine comedian when he wants to be, and the letters (eg those of Toby Celery, Zeke the Cork and the butter sculptor) are full evidence of that. All in all, Tarantula should be compulsory reading for any Dylan fan, whichever side of the debate over its merits they end up coming down on.