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Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Town, the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s, born-again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or British department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical organizations have repeatedly claimed Bob Dylan as their spokesperson. However in the words of filmmaker Todd Haynes, who cast six stars to depict different facets of Dylan's life and creative personae in his 2009 film I'm Not There, "The minute you make an effort to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was." In Light Come Glowing, writer Andrew McCarron uses internal tools to examine three major turning items - or transformations - in Bob Dylan's life: the aftermath of his 1966 street motorcycle "incident", his born-again transformation in 1978, and his recommitment to songwriting and performing in 1987. With fascinating insight, McCarron unveils what sort of common script undergirds Dylan's self-explanations of the changes; and, in the centre of the script, illuminates a fascinating story of religious fatality and rebirth that has captivated us all for generations.
