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A Freewheelin' Time

A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

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A Freewheelin' Time

By: Suze Rotolo
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
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About this listen

Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse.

A shy girl from Queens, Suze was the daughter of Italian working-class communists, growing up at the dawn of the Cold War. It was the age of McCarthy, and Suze was an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. She found solace in poetry, art, and music - and in Greenwich Village, where she encountered like-minded and politically active friends. One hot July day in 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, then a rising musician, at a concert at Riverside Church. She was 17, he was 20; they were both vibrant, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation.

A Freewheelin' Time is a hopeful, intimate memoir of a vital movement at its most creative. It captures the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future in a time when everything seemed possible.

©2008 Suze Rotolo (P)2020 Tantor Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity Memoir Heartfelt

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love how this was an honest nothing hidden history of the early sixties well read very enjoyable

great read

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suze, best known as Dylan's cover girl, was very interesting. she gives great insight into Dylan starting his career, until 65, and is interesting herself

excellent look at 60's us culture...and dylan

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This is a gem of a memoir! Suze Rotolo was so much more than just Bob Dylan’s girlfriend! She provides insight into being raised by communist immigrant parents in America during the McCarthy era, and a young woman’s life during the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and early 1960s. And her travels to Europe and Cuba and her involvement in the civil rights movement, and working in theatre! It’s all beautifully told, by someone who sounds just very lovely and was at the heart of something truly incredible. While the narrator was very good, the only improvement would have been if she’d had a New York or Brooklyn accent, to bring even greater colour to Rotolo’s recollections. But I loved this book - incidental loveliness!

What a treat of an insight into beatnik NYC

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Brought back a lot of memories also my favourite time period for Dylan 60s will have to listen to it a few times

Excellent

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Parts of this book dragged but there were some interesting stories. I’d recommend it if you’re into Bob Dylan or folk music.

A nice insight to Greenwich village

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