So Big
About this book
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.
Subjects
- american literature
- award:pulitzer_prize=1925
- award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
- bildungsromans
- chicago (ill.) -- fiction
- chicago (ill.), fiction
- coming of age
- domestic fiction
- dutch american farmers
- dutch americans
- families
- family relationships
- fathers and daughters
- fathers and daughters -- fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- feminist fiction
- fiction
- fiction, city life
- fiction, classics
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, westerns
- gamblers
- gamblers -- family relationships -- fiction
- historical fiction
- independence in women
- joueurs (jeux de hasard)
- large type books
- pères et filles
- pulitzer prize winner
- relations familiales
- romans, nouvelles
- social life and customs
- western stories