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Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie's only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it's the story of an ordinary couple's dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.

Tike and Ella May Hamlin are struggling 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.

A story of rural realism and progressive activism, and in many ways a companion piece to Guthrie's folk anthem "This Land Is Your Land," House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency and narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D. H. Lawrence, here is a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.

An essay by bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp introduce House of Earth, the inaugural title in Depp's imprint at HarperCollins, Infinitum Nihil.

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"Powerful...Happily, many good things happened, and the book is finally with us."--Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books

"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

"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

"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

"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

"What a combo! Johnny Depp and Woody Guthrie...This belongs on a shelf alongside Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, ..."--New York Post

"House of Earth is so alive it is hard to realize that its author has been gone for 45 years....Stark, original, brutal in spots, lyrical in others, often very funny."--Times (London)

"A heartfelt story about grinding poverty ...This novel, more than a curiosity, is both welcome and timely."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"The book is an eccentric hymn to the everythingness of everything, a sort of hillbilly Finnegans Wake...it offers intimate, often startling access to the peculiar intellect and capacious soul of a 20th-century icon."--Guardian

"With Guthrie's ear for language and eye for human passions, House of Earth is an engaging and poetic story about struggle that still rings true today. Its revival is welcome."--Independent on Sunday
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Finished in 1947, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel--a powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, filled with the homespun lyricism and authenticity that have made his songs a part of our national consciousness.

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.

A story of rural realism, and in many ways a companion piece to Guthrie's folk anthem "This Land Is Your Land," House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape.

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