

A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Author: Suze Rotolo
Narrator: Christina Delaine
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/14/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Memoirs
Synopsis
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' 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.