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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164092
EAN: 9780767926874
ISBN: 0767926870
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Sales Rank: 16877
Studio: Broadway
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A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him.
A shy girl from Queens, Suze Rotolo was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists. Growing up at the start of the Cold War and during McCarthyism, she inevitably became an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. Her childhood was turbulent, but Suze found solace in poetry, art, and music. In Washington Square Park, in Greenwich Village, she encountered like-minded friends who were also politically active. Then one hot day in July 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, a rising young musician, at a folk concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were young, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan was transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation.
Suze Rotolo’s story is rich in character and setting, filled with vivid memories of those tumultuous years of dramatic change and poignantly rising expectations when art, culture, and politics all seemed to be conspiring to bring our country a better, freer, richer, and more equitable life. She writes of her involvement with the civil rights movement and describes the sometimes frustrating experience of being a woman in a male-dominated culture, before women’s liberation changed the rules for the better. And she tells the wonderfully romantic story of her sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressures of growing fame.
A Freewheelin’ Time is a vibrant, moving memoir of a hopeful time and place and of a vital subculture at its most creative. It communicates the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future.
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Rating:  - Disappointment
I read the book and found out pretty quickly that Suze appeared to be capitalizing on her relationship with Bob Dylan without revealing very much of anything. The writing was sincere and without any information that added a new slant. Sorry, but I think this one's a waste of time.
Rating: - Somewhat interesting, but get to the part about Dylan
I got this book because of my interest in Bob Dylan and his involvement in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 60's. I enjoyed the parts of Dylan's recent book devoted to this subject.Rotolo really captures the time and place well.I felt I was there.A lot of personnal information about her relationship with Dylan is also revealed, but I felt that she was also holding back a lot.In 1962 she leaves Dylan in the Village to go to Italy for 8 months, He writes to her several times and ... Read More
Rating: - New perspective on an often told tale
I've been a Dylan fan since 1970 and have followed his career through all of its ups and downs, the good albums and the bad (yes, there have been more than a few of the latter), and along the way I've also read many of the books that have been written about the man.Most have been utterly forgettable; some have been insightful; and a rare few have actually been enlightening.
Suze Rotolo's A Freewheelin' Time is, if nothing else, enlightening.More than just the story of a life -- or ... Read More
Rating: - Nice deposit in the nostalgia bank
This was a well written depiction of the 60's.I was a Bob Dylan fan at this time and he was always quite a mystery to me.This could have been one reason, other than his music which I loved, that he infatuated me. Having never been to the village I'd always been curious about the life style there and Suze Rotolo put it together beautifully.I particularly enjoyed how she linked so many of the folk era greats together and their personal dynamics with each other.The book would be worth reading ... Read More
Rating:  - INTERESTING SOCIAL HISTORY BUT NOT ENOUGH DYLAN
A bit repetitive and poorly edited, but still a fun social history reaffirming a great time in American musical development...
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