- Guthrie, woody, 1912-1967, Biography & Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction
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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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Dent, New American Library, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9788496879379
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First sentence
“I could see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar.”
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