Woody Guthrie

Una casa de tierra, la única novela de Woody Guthrie, concluida en 1947 e inédita hasta el momento, es un crudo retrato del «Dust Bowl» norteamericano que, con sus tormentas de arena y su pertinaz se

Newly discovered, and with an Introduction by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley, legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie's only finished novel: a prophetic and powerful portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling to survive the elements and other powerful forces of destruction during the Dust Bowl.

Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open road during the Great Depression - hell-raising and brawling in boxcars, all the while singing to raise a dime for his next meal. But above all, this is a song for an America Woody saw from the lonesome highway, as he travelled from one end of the country to the other with guitar in hand and the songs that made him a legend drifting out over the Dust Bowl.

Newly discovered, and with an introduction by Johnny Depp, this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie's only finished novel: a compelling portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling during the Dust Bowl. Filled with the homespun lyricism that made Guthrie's songs unforgettable, this is the story of an ordinary couple's dream of a better life in a corrupt world. Living in a precarious wooden shack, Texan farmers Tike and Ella May yearn for a sturdy house to protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a government pamphlet, Tike knows how to build a simple adobe dwelling from the land itself- a house of earth. But while the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs, their dream remains painfully out of reach. A rural tale of progressive activism, 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, it is a powerful tale of America from a great artist.

Apenas iniciados los años treinta del pasado siglo, un jovencísimo Woody Guthrie abandonó la devastada Oklahoma de su infancia para emprender un viaje que sólo detendría la muerte tres décadas más tarde. Rodando a pie o a dedo por los polvorientos caminos de la Gran Depresion, persiguiendo la quimera del Oeste en vagones de carga compartidos con vagabundos, pordioseros y emigrantes, conviviendo con los parias de la tierra en tabernas, fondas, fabricas o campos de cultivo, Guthrie quiso vivir entre las voces de esa America que algunos llaman profunda para tejer con ellas un prodigioso legado de canciones cuyos ecos no han dejado de sonar en la musica popular contemporanea. De ese centon sale uno de los hilos que ha enhebrado, entre otros, Bob Dylan. Pero Guthrie nos lego tambien un relato en prosa de su peregrinacion inacabada, una singular autobiografia que consigue recrear las multiples texturas de un hombre, de una epoca y de una vision que no podemos dejar en las garras del olvido. Cuando reseño la obra para el New York Times, Clifton Fadiman rindio a su autor este homenaje: algun dia la gente advertira que Woody Guthrie y las diez mil canciones que desprenden las cuerdas de su guitarra pertenecen al patrimonio nacional tanto como Yellowstone o Yosemite, que forman parte de lo mejor que este pais puede ofrecer al mundo.

Una casa de tierra, la única novela de Woody Guthrie, concluida en 1947 e inédita hasta el momento, es un crudo retrato del «Dust Bowl» norteamericano que, con sus tormentas de arena y su pertinaz se