Suze Rotolo's memoir of the sixties, when she was known as Bob Dylan's girlfriend--she appears on the cover of his second album--is a generous account of a special time and place. Dylan fans will appreciate learning how Rotolo sees their warm, sometimes tender, relationship, which ended badly. Rotolo does not use the book to settle old scores but, rather, she offers a trustworthy portrait of a protean Dylan at a point in his career where he was absorbing influences and clarifying his own self-vision. Readers will also appreciate that Rotolo has her own story to tell, of how she grew up in Queens, New York as a member of a leftist Italian family, how she developed an interest in art and folk music, and how she spent as much time as she could while in high school in Washington Square park and its environs. Rotolo tells of her own work in causes such as ban the bomb movement, as well as her jobs in theater. It is said that her interests became Dylan's for a time, and her sketches of Village regulars such as Dave Van Ronk, Richard Farina, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, and their hangouts recall an era now gone.

Set against the backdrop of the cultural revolution of the 1960s, a memoir of Greenwich Village describes growing up as the politically active daughter of Italian working-class Communists from Queens, the author's love affair with Bob Dylan and its disintegration under the pressures of his growing fame, and her memories of a time of dramatic change and possibility. 35,000 first printing.

Set against the backdrop of the cultural revolution of the 1960s, a memoir of Greenwich Village describes growing up as the politically active daughter of Italian working-class Communists from Queens, the author's love affair with Bob Dylan and its disintegration under the pressures of his growing fame, and her memories of a time of dramatic change and possibility. 35,000 first printing.