Description: Edna Ferber's classic story of a Texas family's rise to the pinnacle of society in the early days of oil wildcatting was the basis of a popular film starring Rock Hudson, James Dean, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Brief description:
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose work served as the inspiration for numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films, including Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Saratoga Trunk, and Ice Palace. She co-wrote the plays The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big.
Review Quotes:
"A powerful story...truly as big as its subject." - Los Angeles Times
"Her vocabulary is rich and vital; she sees material objects with a penetrating and delightful vision." - New York Tribune
"Miss Ferber at her best, and that's very good indeed." - St. Louis Globe-Democrat
"A powerful novel and a gripping read, and very much ahead of its time regarding South Texas race relations. It has charm and intelligence and swagger, and even some fairly profound sociological insight." - Texas Observer
"A brisk, slick, clever, constantly moving story." - New York Times
"Giant makes marvelous reading--wealth piled on wealth, wonder on wonder in a stunning, splendiferous pyramid of ostentation....no one can deny the explosive impact of this story." - New York Times
"A powerful novel and a gripping read, and very much ahead of its time regarding South Texas race relations." - Texas Observer