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Book

Giant love : Edna Ferber, her best-selling novel of Texas, and the making of a classic American film

Call Number

  • 813 F346G (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon, [2024]

Physical Description

viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens' Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant"--

Contents

  • Precognition
  • The varmint
  • The blaze
  • Autumn in New York
  • More was more
  • Filming where?
  • Ferber on the set
  • True grief
  • Waiting for George Stevens's Giant
  • Final cut
  • George Stevens's production of Giant
  • ¡Caramba!
  • Roundup
  • And the winner--
  • Ferber : a giant in her time; why not today?

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