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Author:

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.

Title:

House of earth [text large print] a novel by Woody Guthrie ; edited and introduced by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp.

Format:

[text large print]

Edition:

Large print ed.

Publisher:

HarperCollins PublishersInc.,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xlviii, 262 p. 23 cm.

Subject:

Farmers--Texas--Fiction.
Adobe houses--Fiction.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Brinkley, Douglas.
Depp, Johnny.

Summary:

"Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. 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. Due to larger forces beyond their control - including ranching conglomerates and banks - their adobe house remains painfully out of reach."--back cover.

ISBN:

0062253425 (lpr. pbk.)
9780062253422

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827237371

Locations:

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)