- Tarantula (book)
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name = Tarantula
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author =Bob Dylan
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Novel , Experimental fiction
publisher = Macmillan & Scribner
release_date = 1971 (unofficially available from 1966)
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 137 pp (hardback edition) & 160 pp (paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-261-63337-6 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-7432-3041-8 (paperback edition)
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followed_by ="Tarantula" is an experimental
novel byBob Dylan , written between 1965 and 1966. It employsstream of consciousness writing , somewhat in the style ofJack Kerouac andWilliam S. Burroughs . One section of the book parodies theLeadbelly song "Black Betty ".Fact|date=August 2008 Reviews of the book liken it to his self-penned liner notes to his album recorded around the same time, "Highway 61 Revisited ".Dylan would later cite "Tarantula" as a book he had never fully signed up to write: "Things were running wild at that point. It never was my intention to write a book."ExpectingRain.com article: " [http://expectingrain.com/dok/cd/2001/romeinterview.html Bob Dylan's 2001 Rome Interview transcription] ".] He went on to equate the book to
John Lennon 's nonsensical book "In His Own Write ", and implied that his former managerAlbert Grossman signed up Dylan to write the novel without the singer's full consent.Although it was to be edited by Dylan and published in 1966, his motorcycle accident in July '66 prevented this. The first 50 copies were printed on A4 paper by the Albion underground press of
San Francisco in mid-1965.Fact|date=August 2008 Numerous bootleg versions of the book were available on theblack market through 1971, when it was officially published. In the early 21st century, it was translated intoFrench . [http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/olsondylan.html]References
External links
* [http://www.amazon.com/Tarantula-Bob-Dylan/dp/0743230418/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223623198&sr=8-1 "Tarantula"] at Amazon
* [http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/essaysmspitzer.html Bob Dylan's "Tarantula": An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clichés] by Mark Spitzer
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