So Big: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)

So Big: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)

<p>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.</p><p><strong>“A masterpiece. . . . It has the completeness, [the] finality that grips and exalts and convinces.”—<em>Literary Review</em></strong></p><p>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber's greatest achievement, <em>So Big</em> 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. </p><p>A brilliant literary masterwork from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and admired writers, the remarkable <em>So Big</em> still resonates with its unflinching view of poverty, sexism, and the drive for success.<strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p>