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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by a man who saw it all. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Woody Guthrie | | Paperback: | 320 pages | | Publisher: | Plume | | Publication Date: | September 15, 1983 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0452264456 | | Product Length: | 8.02 inches | | Product Width: | 5.36 inches | | Product Height: | 0.75 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.61 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.8 inches | | Package Width: | 5.1 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 22 reviews |
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24 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Bound for Glory Jan 30, 2002
By Andreas C G
"Andreas Carl Georgi"
I read this book many years ago, and I easily recommend it to anyone. You don't have to be a fan of folk music (I'm not particularly), or ascribe to any particular ideology to ejoy it. Woody Guthrie is a very intelligent and insightful but writes in a straightforward plain English without any of the pretense of some of the Beat road stories.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Good Luck Kiddo Apr 27, 2006
By Pearl Gates
"Someday Maybe who Knows Baby"
Essential reading for those that need a deeper understanding. There are many poetic passages, sad stories and a great reference to what America is like for those who were poor and often at odds with their country. This is a book that holds up so well today and will make you want more. Dylan probably brought you here in the first place. You won't be disappointed. Everybody should read this book.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
jumpin' and kickin' and swearin' of the American Imagination Jun 09, 1998
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.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Under read and underrated Mar 22, 2006
By Charles Frausto
"Chuck"
This was a really great book. It's hard to believe one man would be so talented as both songwriter and autobiographer. It all had a very Beat feel to it, but I might actually like it better than On The Road because it's got all the fantastic enthusiasm for living, but it's so completely devoid of pretense. It immediately jumped into my top 5.
12 of 15 found the following review helpful:
A Real Trooper that Sticks to his Guns Oct 16, 1998
By kleitza@ameritech.net
Woody has meant much to me. I found out about him through hearing Dylan's Tribute to Guthrie (An Amazing Poem/Bootleg Series Volume 1). My girlfriend picked up the book for me when I was out of a coma for two weeks due to a motorcycle accident. Coincidently Guthrie died the same month and day of my accident October Third. Which happens to be the last line of the book. I was knocked back. Guthrie represented a man, a real man out to do what he wanted to do in the way he wanted to do it. Hard to find in our times. Guthrie has been an inspiration for me and I cherish this book, and I am going to take the same approach as he has done in Bound for Glory, as I will in the book I have just begun, 'In the Eye of a Flower'. Check Bound for Glory out if you wish to connect with the struggle of a true American Individual.
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