House of earth
By: by Woody Guthrie
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover (with dustjacket)
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780062248398
Copyright date: 2013
Description: "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."--Dust jacket.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: xi; label: HOUSE OF EARTH; label: I Dry Rosin
title: 1; label: II Termites
title: 53; label: III Auction block
title: 99; label: IV Hammer ring
title: 185; label: Acknowledgments
title: 215; label: Selected Bibliography
title: 219; label: Selected Discography
title: 223; label: Biographical Time Line
title: 225