House of Earth: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “[Guthrie was] a brilliant and distinctive prose stylist, whose writing is distinguished by a homespun authenticity, deep-seated purpose, and remarkable ear for dialect. These attributes are on vivid display in Guthrie’s long-lost House of Earth.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Its voice is powerful, and to read it is to find kinship with an era whose angers and credulities still seem timely…There is a surprising electricity in House of Earth.”

  — USA Today

• “What a combo! Johnny Depp and Woody Guthrie…This belongs on a shelf alongside Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.”

  — New York Post

• “Guthrie demonstrates an easy facility with language and the words of the people of the Great Plains. The opening lines strike a note of simple poetry…House of Earth will certainly be essential reading for Woody Guthrie fans.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “The style of House of Earth is strange and lyrical…House of Earth becomes an invaluable addition to the literature of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, one with an eerie relevance in today’s America.”

  — Dallas Morning News

• “House of Earth is an artifact, of course, but so is any buried treasure…House of Earth is well constructed, like a good song or house should be, but it’s also a bit flawed and unruly, exactly the way American literature has always been.”

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “House of Earth seems the perfect match for [Guthrie’s] powerful autobiography Bound for Glory, carrying with it strong portrait of rural resilience and social activism. Though grounded in the Dust Bowl era, this fiction will speak to readers more acquainted with more recent hard times.”

  — Barnes & Noble, editorial review

• “Almost more a prose poem than a novel, this is an impassioned tirade against agribusiness and capitalism. Like Guthrie’s songs, the novel presents concerns of the Everyman…Readers who appreciate Jon Steinbeck and Erskine Caldwell, as well as fans of Guthrie’s music, will want to reach for this folksy novel.”

  — Library Journal

• “Guthrie’s straight forward depiction of his raw rural characters are reminiscent of not any of his fellow Americans so much as they are of Mikhail Sholokhov. The folksy, incantatory exuberance is all Guthrie…An entertainment—and an achievement even more than a curiosity, yet another facet of Guthrie’s multiplex talents.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Told in the unmistakable vernacular of Woody, at once earthy and erudite, House of Earth is less a novel than an extended prose poem interrupted by healthy smatterings of folksy dialogue.”

  — Shelf Awareness