

Giant
A Novel
Author: Edna Ferber
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
Unabridged: 15 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Caedmon
Published: 04/23/2019
Author: Edna Ferber
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
Unabridged: 15 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Caedmon
Published: 04/23/2019
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.
I finished this sweeping novel of Texas while on an airplane, bound for my first visit to that great state. I had earlier sent a call out to my friends, asking what one should read before one's first trip to Texas, and when I saw that this suggestion was written by the author of So Big, a novel I lo......more