Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, "If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?"
Hyper-detailed and persuasive ... Is Polito’s approach challenging at times? Yes, but it’s worth it if you want a fuller sense of how the mind of one of our most challenging artists operates.
It's been a long time since I've read a book about a major artist that is as much fun — that communicates as much excitement as the author feels for his subject — as Robert Polito's After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace ... The book is itself a flood of ideas, of information, of emotion ... Renders Dylan the hardboiled protagonist of his own ever-lengthening career — one long mystery that will never be fully solved.
