House of Earth - Woodie Guthrie torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: dust bowl America Overcoming Hardship Texas Panhandle

Written by Woodie Guthrie
Read by Will Patton, Douglas Brinkley
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: HarperAudio
Date: February 2013
Duration: 6 hours 37 minutes

Summary:
Featuring the song, ‘House of Earth’ performed by Lucinda Williams.

Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie’s only fully realized novel, a powerful portrait of dust bowl America. It is the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.

Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. Living in a wooden shack, Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. He has the know-how to build a structure made from the land itself—a house of earth. Though they are one with the farm and with each other, the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs. Thanks to larger forces, their adobe house remains painfully out of reach. House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape, a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.