A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

Amazing portrait of the 60's in it's earlier years. It's amazing to read about people we feel we know now (woody allen, bill cosby, and of course dylan) before they were who we think of today.

A fabulous book illustrating how we should all be grateful to her for radicalising Dylan and demonstrating that she was a feminist before feminism. A page-turner and ends far too soon in her life.

There were parts of this book that I enjoyed, but most of the interesting sections were far too short. While she had an intriguing childhood and a valid and unique perspective on the 60s, I grew tired of hearing about her own life and history. The portions of the book about folk singers and other characters from the time period were just mentionings really. Her outlook on her relationship with...more

There were parts of this book that I enjoyed, but most of the interesting sections were far too short. While she had an intriguing childhood and a valid and unique perspective on the 60s, I grew tired of hearing about her own life and history. The portions of the book about folk singers and other characters from the time period were just mentionings really. Her outlook on her relationship with Dylan is very honest and open. Anyone who is super into Dylan would probably dig this book for those aspects. But I was looking more for general Greenwich Village musician/artist lifestyle type of information and was a little disappointed.   hide

Immensely evocative of time and place - I loved every page of this wonderful book.