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Dylan -- who was editing a dramatic movie based on his life, even as his life seemed to be falling apart -- told Rosenbaum there was a sound he was after that he'd only come close to on one record so far. The sound, he told Rosenbaum, was of \"thin, wild mercury.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book that captures the elusive mercurial artist and his work in a way no other has -- a vivid, compelling pursuit of Dylan, successively a hipster folkie, a Greenwich Village sparkplug of a cultural revolution, who plugged into an amplifier to drive away folkie solemnity, then became a countrified crooner, the man who, just months after Rosenbaum's interview, became a fire-breathing, proselytizing Christian . . . before returning to being a non-religious Jew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat was behind it all, Rosenbaum asks, and how can we understand him through his lyrics? 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