Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2012

A series of dreams -- I'm not there, I'm gone -- Beyond the horizon -- Forever young -- Don't think twice -- I was young when I left home -- Boy in search of something -- Come gather 'round people -- 'I think I'll call it America' -- Once upon a time -- Pain sure brings out the best in people -- Lo and behold! -- Gods and gunfighters -- Tangled up in blue

"In Once upon a time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal"--Publisher description