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Book of the week: The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Agence France Presse/Getty Images It’s odd that a man regarded as the greatest truth-teller of his generation should have been such a “fibber”, said Craig Brown in The Mail on Sunday. But as Clinton Heylin’s detailed new biography shows, little that Bob Dylan has ever said about himself is true. He didn’t run away from home aged 12 and live as a hobo; nor did he attend a reform school. “He was brought up by nice, middle-class parents in a comfortable home in Hibbing, Minnesota.” Years later, when he played Carnegie Hall for the first time, he told a reporter he’d lost contact with his parents – when in fact they were “sitting proudly in the audience”. The truth is that the “wistful, yearning loving narrator of many of his songs” bears little relation to the actual person, who was “ruthless in his romantic life”, and surrounded himself with sycophants. But while Heylin’s undercutting of Dylan’s mythology is interesting, “his galumphing prose tends

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