{"product_id":"so-big-hardcover","title":"So Big - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdna Ferber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in 1924, \u003cem\u003eSo Big\u003c\/em\u003e is Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of endurance, ambition, and the shaping forces of land and labour.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel follows Selina Peake DeJong, a schoolteacher who marries into the farming community of Illinois' Dutch settlements and must confront hardship, widowhood, and economic uncertainty. Determined to preserve dignity and cultivate beauty in unpromising soil, Selina builds a life rooted in perseverance and quiet resilience. Her son, Dirk-nicknamed \"So Big\"-becomes the measure by which ideals of success, art, and material ambition are tested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerber renders agricultural life with clarity and restraint, avoiding sentiment while acknowledging struggle. The landscape is neither romanticised nor diminished; it is a shaping force upon character. Beneath the narrative of rural enterprise lies a meditation on values-whether prosperity alone constitutes achievement, and what is lost when aesthetic and moral sensibility are subordinated to commercial gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, \u003cem\u003eSo Big\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the notable American novels of the early twentieth century, balancing social observation with controlled emotional force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"With all its flaws and crudities it has the completeness, and finality, that grips and exalts and convinces. By virtue of these qualities So Big is a masterpiece.\" -Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A thoughtful book, clean and strong, dramatic at times, interesting always, clear-sighted, sympathetic, a novel to read and remember.\" - The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e So Big\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46117895930042,"sku":"9781515442226","price":39.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/nUM0iqQgrT9781515442226.webp?v=1783443937","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/so-big-hardcover","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}