FREEWHEELIN’ RECOMMEND: SUZE ROTOLO MEMOIR OF DYLAN DAYS
By Tom Teicholz at 31 July, 2008, 12:07 pm
Suze Rotolo who was the girl on the cover of Bob Dylan’s second album “Freewheelin'” has written a memoir of her times. She was interviewed for the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home”and made such an impression as an intelligent forthright sensitive person who stayed true to herself, but whose impact on Dylan was undeniable, that the book agents came a callin’.
The resulting memoir A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Broadway Books) is true to her — well remembered, sensitive, true — you get a great sense of how it all was, who the players were, and how things developed. And yes, you get some sense, despite her discretion and integrity, of Bob Dylan as he was, and why she broke up with him.
Just the other day, I was talking to a friend about Rotolo’s memoir, praising it, and he said, “he should have married her.” And I replied, “Wouldn’t have mattered — she have had to end up divorcing him.” ANd that’s the truth — certain women will put up with some things, but few women in the end can put up with it all — and you don’t see a lot of “geniuses” in the arts with their first wives — for better or worse, that’s the pattern.
But that being said, Rotolo comes off as a fine person, one you wouldn’t mind having a cup of coffee with, one with whom you are happy to spend time, reading her reminscences of Greenwich Village in the day.
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