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Adult Book
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Phillipsburg Free Public Library
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Adult Non-Fiction |
Adult Non-Fiction |
927.844 Guthri
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Available
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674891000216621 |
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Total holds: 0
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Kirkus Book Review
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie's continued autobiography is an event even though, as usual, it won't bear close scrutiny as to absolute truth-telling. That's why it's ""lived and dreamed by."" But it's Woody's voice all right, teasing, salty, irrepressible. ""Wood Block"" and his Papa Charlie and Uncle Jeff and Cousin Eddie light out from the Texas Panhandle in a $22 truck headed down for the Chisos mountains around the Mexican border lookin' for a gold and silver mine Charlie's Paw, Jerry P., once found in Study Butte. Fool's gold really, wild goose chase. And the truest and sweetest thing in this ramblin' cussin' book is the story of how the Guthries, semi-vagrant Okies, meet the Mexicans who feed and love and guide them through those roadless mountains. You can't help but feel Woody's special affinity with the wetback migrants, the compassion and anger that made him write Deportees and Pastures of Plenty. Lots of song snatches are here too since Uncle Jeff took his fiddle and Woody took his guitar and the family always did join in ""to save my two-bit, wild-ass, no-good, nitty-witted neck."" The book was patched together from an 800-page 1947-48 manuscript and some other versions of this less than heroic saga in the Guthrie Archives. But also, as Woody's son Arlo sings, it's about ""five generations of a fiddle-playin' clan"" going down that long dusty road. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.