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.
Genres
- 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
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