So big
Record details
- ISBN: 0061859982 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780061859984 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
252, 28 p. ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010, c1924.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1924. |
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Subject: | Chicago (Ill.) Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Gamblers Family relationships Fiction |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC FER (Text) | 34055122698727 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | FIC FER (Text) | 33420145108149 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
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Author Notes
So Big : A Novel
Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Aug. 15, 1885. She spent her early career as a reporter. In 1910, Everybody's Magazine published her short story, The Homely Heroine, set in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ferber's novel, Dawn O'Hara, the story of a newspaperwoman in Milwaukee, followed in 1911. She gained national attention for her series of Emma McChesney stories, tales of a traveling underskirt saleswoman that were published in national magazines. A play based on the stories, Our Mrs. McChesney, was produced in 1915, starring Ethel Barrymore. With collaborator George S. Kaufman, Ferber wrote acclaimed plays Dinner at Eight and The Royal Family. Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for So Big, the story of a woman raising a child on a truck farm outside of Chicago. Her best known books include Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace. Show Boat was made into a classic movie and Broadway musical; the film version of Cimarron, won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931. Ferber wrote two autobiographies, A Peculiar Treasure published in 1939 and A Kind of Magic in 1963. She died of cancer on April 16, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography)