Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed - Softcover

Guthrie, Woody

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803270534 ISBN 13: 9780803270534

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

Seeds of Man is based on Woody Guthrie’s adventurous 1931 trip through Texas. Nineteen-year-old Woody, accompanied by family members, drives from Pampa in the Panhandle to the rugged Big Bend country in a wheezing Model-T Ford truck. They are searching for a silver mine that Uncle Jeff had discovered and then lost. This autobiographical novel, originally published in 1976—nearly ten years after Woody Guthrie’s death—shows how his father’s search for riches was a dead-end street. The characters dare and do, drink Papa’s high-proof whiskey, eat out of cans, meet real characters, make love, and sing the lively songs composed by Woody along the way.

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Review:

“A marvelous chronicle of the irrepressible, rambunctious, ornery fun of the poor. Woody is their laureate . . . the best spokesman in word and music that the American proletariat has ever had.”—New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review )

“A vivid celebration of youth. . . . [T]old in broad, Rabelaisian detail that’s a delight to read.”—Boston Globe (Boston Globe )

“Full of compassion for human suffering, this is an emotional and authentic portrait of life in the Great Depression, set in a romantic landscape of primitive beauty.”—Library Journal (Library Journal )

“An important description of the way we grow up. Here and there it tells us a lot of things we really knew about ourselves all along, but which we perhaps didn’t think about enough. It’s a hymn to life.”—Chicago Daily News (Chicago Daily News )

“A fast-moving story that would make a great movie, from the great opening scene to the great closing scene. It is full of symbolism for youth in this modern, changing world.”—Pete Seeger (Pete Seeger )

From Library Journal:

Written in the 1940s and published posthumously in the 1970s, Guthrie's memoir recounts a gold-prospecting trip taken during his youth. LJ's reviewer praised Guthrie's effort as "full of compassion for human suffering...an emotional and authentic portrait of life in the Great Depression, set in a romantic landscape of primitive beauty" (LJ 11/1/76).
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803270534
• ISBN 13: 9780803270534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 401