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Availability:In StockContributor:Woody GuthriePublish date:2013-10-22Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062248404ISBN-10:62248405UPC:9780062248404Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Small Town & Rural, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCHWTYNB56

Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie's only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it's 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 are struggling to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself--fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth.

A story of rural realism and progressive activism, and in many ways a companion piece to Guthrie's folk anthem "This Land Is Your Land," House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency and narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D. H. Lawrence, here is a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.

An essay by bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp introduce House of Earth, the inaugural title in Depp's imprint at HarperCollins, Infinitum Nihil.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062248404ISBN-10:62248405UPC:9780062248404Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Small Town & Rural, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCHWTYNB56
Guthrie, Woody: -

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.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Woody Guthrie

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