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A review by rhondaraider
So Big by Edna Ferber
4.0
Great character descriptions! The story takes place in the early 1900s, near Chicago. Selina begins the story as a young girl and comes into her own over decades. Her son, Dirk, grows up to become someone with very different values. Edna Ferber really gets her characters: simple farmers, entrepreneurs, socialites, sufferers of unrequited love.
The end matter talks about the book title. Ferber didn't like it, had simply used it as a placeholder. It's about as wrong a title as I can think of! Better would have been her other idea, Selina, the name of the female protagonist. The story of how So Big won the Pulitzer Prize, at the back of the book, also is interesting. So political!
The end matter talks about the book title. Ferber didn't like it, had simply used it as a placeholder. It's about as wrong a title as I can think of! Better would have been her other idea, Selina, the name of the female protagonist. The story of how So Big won the Pulitzer Prize, at the back of the book, also is interesting. So political!