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Author Stadler, Gustavus, author.

Title Woody Guthrie : an intimate life / Gustavus Stadler.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2020]

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  782.42166 GUTHRIE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B GUTHRIE    Check Shelf
Description 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Stadler revives Guthrie's story as a dramatic portrait understood more fully through the lens of disability and close relationships, as he faced setbacks including his daughter's death, an obscenity arrest, therapy in a sex deviance clinic, and repeated stays in mental wards"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents When to Be Personal -- "I Don't Sing Any Silly or Jerky Songs" -- Choreographing the Revolution -- "I Hate to Describe My Mother in Terms Such as These" -- The War Against Loneliness -- Bodies of Glory -- Stackabones -- Two Good Men a Long Time Gone -- "The Whole Works" -- "Sick in His Own Healthy Way" -- Look Away -- "Exactly How My Own Mother Saw and Felt."
Subject Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
Folk singers -- United States -- Biography.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967. (OCoLC)fst00043317
Folk singers. (OCoLC)fst01198495
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography.
Biography (DNLM)D019215
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Stadler, Gustavus, Woody Guthrie Boston : Beacon Press, 2020. 9780807019092 (DLC) 2020010985
ISBN 9780807018910 (hardcover)
0807018910 (hardcover)
9780807014745 (paperback)
0807014745 (paperback)
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