Bound for Glory (Plume)
by Woody Guthrie
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Author: Woody GuthrieForeword: Pete Seeger
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-09-15
ISBN: 0452264456
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: THE OTHER REVIEWS DO NOT PRAISE THIS BOOK ENOUGH.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Wally Gator here, stepping in to do drop a little justice on the man Woody Guthrie. He's my new best friend, ever since I read his 1943 masterpiece BOUND FOR GLORY. Woody wrote a book unlike anything I have ever read before. A road story/ autobiography of the mans life up until that point, not your average song and dance man story, boy. The man wrote unique and witty stuff, yet true, sometimes painfully true. Observe if you will the following quote... "There is a stage of hard luck that turns into fun, and a stage of poverty that turns into pride, and a place in laughing that turns into fight." ...Damned straight wisdom. Everybody knows its true, just needed to be put down in such a way. I think thru and thru this is what Woody Guthrie was trying to put down through this epic peice of American writing, damn straight wisdom. The whole story is a series of struggles, fought by himself, his family, and the countless characters he meets on the road, while hard travelin' in the formitive 20th century America (between the two World Wars). I took my sweet time reading this book, and really enjoyed soaking up the words and wisdom of Woody Guthrie. Its to bad he didn't write more books in his time, a true joy to read. You feel your heart plummet at some of his falls, yet you can't help but laugh at some of his struggles, and the whole time you get the notion that life really isn't that tough, and should be lived to its fullest. Easily relatable, even if it does take place in a different America, in a different time. There is a great little scene where he gets curious about this medicine that people keep buying during prohibition while he's working at a pharmacy. "I drank it all down, and when I woke up I was out of a job." Insanely awesome book. GET crackin' on this one!
Summary of Bound for Glory (Plume)
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by a man who saw it all.
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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