So Big

Description:

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: Family relationships,  Fathers and daughters,  Fiction,  Gamblers,  Pulitzer Prize Winner,  award:pulitzer_prize=1925,  award:pulitzer_prize=fiction,  Domestic fiction,  Bildungsromans,  Social life and customs,  Families,  Large type books,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Chicago (ill.), fiction,  Fiction, family life,  American literature,  Fiction, family life, general,  Fiction, general,  Coming of age,  Dutch Americans,  Dutch American farmers,  Independence in women,  Feminist fiction,  Western stories,  Historical fiction,  Joueurs (Jeux de hasard),  Romans, nouvelles,  Relations familiales,  Pères et filles,  Fiction, classics,  Fiction, westerns,  Fiction, city life,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fathers and daughters -- Fiction,  Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction,  Gamblers -- Family relationships -- Fiction

Places: Chicago (Ill.)