A Freewheelin' Time : A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Paperback)

from TimBazzett

Another bestseller I am years late coming to, but Suze Rotolo's fine coming-of-age-in-the-60s memoir, A FREEWHEELIN' TIME, is still relevant, still a fine and compelling read. And not just because she was Bob Dylan's first girlfriend and appeared on the cover of that album with him. Nope. She's g...

from snash

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties is Suze Rotolo's memoir of her life during that decade. Four years of that time she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend so an inside look at the early Bob Dylan is a major draw of the book. It's more than that, though, for she lived an inte...

from elkiedee

Suze Rotolo is best known as Bob Dylan's girlfriend at the start of his career, but this memoir shows that there's so much more to her than that. It is clearly marketed as a bit of Dylanology, with the famous album cover photo of the couple on the front cover of the book, but it's as much a memoi...

from idranksometea

I enjoyed reading this book. I'm not a Bod Dylan fanatic or anything of the sort. Luckily, this book wasn't about him. It was about love, folk music, being young, and NYC in the 60s. I really liked Suze Rotolo's description of the 1960's and her approach to different life-events. Also, I loved th...

from Michael_Godfrey

Rotolo masterfully avoids the pitfall of a voyeuristic obsession with The Great Man, and takes us instead into a journey through Greenwich Village in the days of its bohemian incarnation. She writes lightly, playfully almost, but her words are multi-dimensional, weaving in and out of personal, so...