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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo deals with just that. NYT describes the book as, “In “A Freewheelin’ Time” Ms. Rotolo walks a delicate line between not wanting to exploit her relationship with Mr. Dylan but needing to address people’s understandable curiosity about it. “Feeding the beast” is how Ms. Rotolo describes the futility of trying to gratify the endless hunger of Dylan fanatics.” Publishers Weekly had negative things to say, “Rotolo doesn't give us a very freewheelin' memoir. She offers shallow, almost schoolgirl-like reflections on the man she loved and lived with for three years. In a dull and plodding manner, Rotolo provides no new insights into Dylan, claiming, as have so many, that he is mysterious and enigmatic. In an excerpt from one of her journals, she writes ambivalently that she believes in his genius and that he is an extraordinary writer, but that she doesn't think he's an honorable person.” Amazon has several reviews available, one from Salon that states, “Rotolo has written a perceptive, entertaining and often touching book about a remarkable era in recent American cultural history, about a way of living, of making art, that couldn't have happened at any other time or in any other place.” Broadway is the publisher, and visit the NYT article here, where you can not only read the review but also a chapter excerpt.
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