So Big

Hardcover

Published June 13, 1951 by Doubleday Books.

ISBN:
9780385049566
OCLC Number:
2517983

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So Big - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - the unforgettable story of Selina Peake Dejong, her marriage, widowhood, eventual success as a truck farmer, and of her son, Dirk. In So Big, Ferber simultaneously created a vivid picture of turn-of-the-century Chicago and dealt with the contemporary issues of poverty, Americanization, family tensions, sexism, and success.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Illinois
  • Farm life