House of Earth, Woody Guthrie
House of Earth, Woody Guthrie
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House of Earth
A Novel

Author: Woody Guthrie

Narrator: Will Patton, Douglas Brinkley

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 02/27/2013

Synopsis

Featuring the song, ""House of Earth"" performed by Lucinda Williams.Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel, a powerful portrait of dust bowl America. It is the story of an ordinary couple's dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. Living in a wooden shack, Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. He has the know-how to build a structure made from the land itself—a house of earth. Though they are one with the farm and with each other, the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs. Thanks to larger forces, their adobe house remains painfully out of reach. House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape, a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.

About Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (1912-1967) was an American folk balladeer whose best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." His musical legacy includes more than three thousand songs, covering an exhaustive repertoire of historical, political, cultural, topical, spiritual, narrative, and children's themes.

About Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America), the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

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Goodreads review by °°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· ʜᴇʟᴇɴ Ροζουλί Εωσφόρος ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°°

“Μια ιστορία του αγροτικού ρεαλισμού και του προοδευτικού ακτιβισμού, και με πολλούς τρόπους ένα συνοδευτικό κομμάτι του λαϊκού ύμνου του Guthrie «Αυτή η γη είναι η γη σου», το House of Earth είναι ένα θλιβερό πορτρέτο κακουχίας και ελπίδας σε ένα καταστρεπτικό τοπίο. Συνδυάζοντας το ηθικό επείγον κ......more

Goodreads review by roz_anthi

Αναλυτική κριτική μπορείτε να διαβάσετε στο Oh That Book. image: Το 2012 το New York Times Book Review ανακοίνωσε την ανακάλυψη ενός ολοκληρωμένου μυθιστορήματος του Αμερικανού τραγουδιστή και θρύλου της φολκ μουσικής, Γούντι Γκάθρι, 100 χρόνια μετά τη γέννησή του. Ο Γκάθρι γεννήθηκε στην Οκλαχόμα αλ......more

Goodreads review by Makis

Και τώρα ανθρωπάκο στην αμερικανική βερσιόν. Οι μη προνομιούχοι είναι αναγκασμένοι να πολεμούν για την επιβίωση. Υποταγμένοι στα ένστικτα τους δεν μπορούν να αντιμετωπίσουν την πείνα, τη λαγνεία, το φθόνο, κ δεν σταματούν να ονειρεύονται. Η θέληση για ζωή, ωστόσο, είναι πανίσχυρη κ επιβραβεύεται. Ο......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt

Um. Awkward. I've waited a while before committing this response to writing, but it isn't getting any better in my head, so here goes. He's Woody Guthrie, for goodness sakes! A legend! An icon! I'm thinking this was unpublished for a reason. . . there are parts of it, the descriptive bits about the e......more

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