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"Bound for Glory" is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.
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The original road novel--even though it takes the form of autobiography. If Guthrie didn't actually invent the footloose, no- strings-attached American hero (remember this guy Twain who wrote something about lighting out for the territory?), he certainly solidified the 20th-century version. Guitar slung over the shoulder as he sprinted to boost himself aboard freight trains, a man of the people equally at home with urban intellectuals, Guthrie incarnated for generations of Americans the artist as free spirit. This is the book that created the legend.
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WOODY GUTHRIE (1912-1967) was a legendary American folk singer-songwriter. His songs told the stories of the American people: their land, their labors, their trials and their joys. While many of his songs were born of his experience in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, "Honeyky Hanukah" was part of a little-known series of songs he wrote celebrating Jewish culture, inspired by his mother in law, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-known Yiddish poet who lived across the street from him during his years in Coney Island, New York.
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0330241664
- ISBN 13 9780330241663
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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BOUND FOR GLORY
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Picador (Pan), London
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0330241664
ISBN 13: 9780330241663
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. Third printing of the first UK paperback edition, published in 1977. The first paperback printing was in 1974, and the book was originally published in hardback in the UK by J. M. Dent & Co. in 1969. ***Near fine in colour-illustrated wrappers. Edges of wrappers very slightly rubbed. Wrappers clean and bright. No reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. With a neat ownership name in ink to the front free endpaper. The cover of this edition has a still from the film which came out in 1976, directed by Hal Ashby and starring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie. ***198 mm x130 mm. 320 pages. ***'Bound for Glory, first published in 1943, is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Okie oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on and under trains, in stolen cars, and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards. Woody writes as he spoke, and his voice is the voice of Kerouac, Corso, Dylan and Brautigan.' (Quote from the rear wrapper). ***A third printing of the first UK paperback edition, with different cover art to the previous printings, in nice bright condition. All of the 1970s Picador printings are uncommon, most especially in this fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 7234
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