Présentation de l'éditeur
NOW IN PAPERBACK - the long-awaited memoir by the woman who was Bob Dylan's girlfriernd in the early sixties...'I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was seventeen years old and he was twenty...' Thus begins Suze Rotolo's wonderfully romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressure of Dylan's growing fame. It is Rotolo who is pictured with Dylan on the famous and iconic sleeve of his album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. She has never written about her time with him, and this memoir is therefore very eagerly anticipated. Set during the time when Dylan was writing the soundtrack to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, this is a unique and remarkable narrative of a place and time when art, culture and politics all seemed to be conspiring to make America freer, better and more equitable. With a supporting cast that includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Andy Warhol, this is the book not only Dylan fans but also anyone fascinated by the sixties will have been waiting for. In hardback A Freewheelin' Time attracted ubiquitous press coverage. Suze Rotolo is an artist who lives in New York City with her family.
Revue de presse
'A mouthwatering prospect. Rotolo was easily the second-most-compelling interviewee on No Direction Home; I hung onto her every word... The interest lies purely in the insight a very intelligent woman might provide on the formative period of a great artist' --The Dylan Daily
'Of all the unwritten books on Dylan, the most thoroughly documented musician of his era, this is perhaps the one most desired by his fans.' --The Guardian, August 16th 2008
'A welcome, page-turning perspective conspicuously absent from the plethora of books on Dylan and the folk era of the 1960s: that of a woman witnessing it all from its cultural and political epicenter.' --Todd Haynes, screenwriter and director of I'm Not There
Biographie de l'auteur
Suze Rotolo is author of A Freewheelin’ Time, a memoir of Greenwich Village in the 1960s. She died in 2011.
