So Big: A Novel - Brossura

Ferber, Edna

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ISBN 10: 006256756X ISBN 13: 9780062567567

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2016

Riassunto

Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life at the turn of the twentieth century—now available in a limited Olive Edition.

“A masterpiece. . . . It has the completeness, [the] finality that grips and exalts and convinces.”—Literary Review

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber's greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. It is the unforgettable story of Selina Peake DeJong, a gambler's daughter, and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity and her sanity in the face of marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.

A brilliant literary masterwork from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and admired writers, the remarkable So Big still resonates with its unflinching view of poverty, sexism, and the drive for success.

 

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Recensione:

“It has the completeness, and finality, that grips and exalts and convinces. . . . So Big is a masterpiece.” (Literary Review)

“A thoughtful book, clean and strong, dramatic at times, interesting always, clear-sighted, sympathetic, a novel to read and to remember.” (New York Times)

“[A] standout.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

“Recommended reading for our times.” (Washington Post)

“Her books were . . . vivid and had a sound sociological basis. She was among the best-read novelists in the nation, and critics of the 1920s and 1930s did not hesitate to call her the greatest American woman novelist of her day.” (New York Times)

“Edna Ferber could spin a tale.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“For sheer readability few writers can equal Edna Ferber. She writes so smoothly and brightly, with so much gusto, with so wideawake a style and so clever a selection of detail that she routs all that is common-place and casts out all that is dull.” (New York Times)

“There can be no question that So Big gets close to the life of its chosen bit of American soil, or that it is persuasively human in its touch.” (Springfield Republican)

L'autore:

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose work served as the inspiration for numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films, including Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Saratoga Trunk, and Ice Palace. She co-wrote the plays The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel So Big.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 006256756X
• ISBN 13: 9780062567567
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 326