Bound for Glory (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open road during the Great Depression - hell-raising and brawling in boxcars, all the while singing a dime for his next meal. But above all, this is a song for an America Woody saw from the lonesome highway, as he travelled from one of the country to the other with guitar in hand and the songs that made him a legend drifting out over the Dust Bowl.

Bound for Glory is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny cynical earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town of the Depression that followed and of his subsequent travels in on and under trains in stolen cars and on his feet round an America going rotten from the top downwards.