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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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Woody Guthrie, the son of a cowboy, was born in 1912 in rural Oklahoma. When the Depression arrived, Woody hit the road and travlled round America. He became a folksinger, guitarist, merchant seaman, actor, artist and broadcaster. Woody Guthrie died in 1967 in Queen's, New York.
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I could see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
I could see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
No matter whether you know of Guthrie and his musical legacy, whether you care that the young Bob Dylan read this book and it changed his life forever, or that you like American folk music at all. This autobiographical novel is one of the greatest American poems of all time, a Whitmanesque folk song that engulfs the glory of the human spirit embodied in Guthries journey from Okemah to New York. This book was made for you and me and it demands to be read. An epic of dustbowl, oilboom, freight train, cyclone, wanderings that takes Guthrie all the way to the big apple, haunted by the plethora of American dreams he's seen sprout flourish and die along the way, this book contains one of the most awe inspiring passages in all American literature. When Guthrie walks out the Rainbow Lounge in New York, unable to sell out on the show biz circuit, and wanders playing his guitar into the streets of New York, it'll bring just about anyone to tears of joy. A triumph of the human spirit, this book was made for you and me.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bound for Glory expresses the heart of a man, a life and a people. Told in true storteller fashion, one which twists and turns language into something alive and personal, Woodie Guthrie recounts his life, from Oklahoma to all around this great big old country. And by the books end, you feel you've rambled the whole way with him and seen what he had. This is an American classic on par with the Autobiography of Mark Twain. No American history book or teacher or what have you can give you a tenth of what this book can---i.e., the ethos of the American people who suffered many trials and tribulations, depravations and hardship, and yet managed to still be beautiful. So forget your Beatnicks and your New England Transcendentialists, and pick up a book worthy of being called an example of the American Bardic Tradition. You most certainly won't be an inch disappointed.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a great book Woody Guthrie captures the heart of America & the south. A great read & a very gifted writer. Top marks & well worth the buy.
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Man of the People
If you know American folk music, yet don't know Woody Guthrie's music, then reading Bound for Glory might be a great place to begin getting to know his work. Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. A. Fallows
great American story
I have just finished reading this boo and cant recommend it highly enough. It is a story of Woody's upbringing in a family with his mother suffering from mental illness and the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by loz
Much more than I expected
I read this purely because I was interested in Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie's influence on him. I was overwhelmed by the actual experience of reading it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Ed Vital
I'd Like You To Read This.
It takes a while for your ear to get accustomed to Woody's use of English but his vernacular lends authenticity to the story. Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2009 by Ian Cadman
This Book is Our Book
I first heard of Woody Guthrie through the Bob Dylan tracks `Song for Woody' and `Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie' but he drifted out of my consciousness until Brue Springsteen... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2008 by Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers'
MORE PEAOPLE SHOULD GO BACK TO WOODY FOR INSPIRATION
At first,after the first chapter I put this book away as unreadable,but I went back to it due to Dylan's feelings towards the guy. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2004 by D. Bibb
The making of a Hero
I grew up with the music of Woody, sung to me by my father as lullabies, party songs, and Sunday-afternoon entertainment. Read more
Published on 16 April 1999
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