A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties [Paperback]

“The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover ofFreewheelin’broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUTmagazine

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 seventeen, he was twenty; 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’ Timeis 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.

A delightful surprise . . . [Rotolo] gracefully captures Greenwich Village as an enchanted lost world. —Entertainment Weekly

A portrait-of-an-era . . . through [Rotolo's] eyes, we see Dylan as a unique artist on his way to greatness. —People

Artist Suze Rotolo pays rollicking homage to a revolutionary age. —Vogue

Exhilarating . . . a moving account. —New York Times

A perceptive, entertaining, and often touching book about a remarkable era in recent American cultural histolC-