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Edna Ferber nasce a Kalamazoo, Michigan, nel 1885, ma ancora molto giovane si trasferisce nel Wisconsin. Diventata giornalista a soli diciassette anni, pubblica il suo primo romanzo nel 1911 e raggiunge subito una grande popolarità. Negli anni ’20 scrive alcune commedie di enorme successo, che vengono messe in scena a Broadway, e nel 1925 ottiene il premio Pulitzer con il romanzo So big. Una storia americana, che viene poi adattato per il cinema, proprio come accadrà con Il gigante, su cui è basato il leggendario film di George Stevens con Rock Hudson nella parte di Bick, Elizabeth Taylor in quella di Leslie e James Dean in quella di Jett, la sua ultima, grande interpretazione prima dell’incidente stradale in cui perderà la vita, a soli ventiquattro anni. Ferber muore a New York nel 1968, ma le sue opere sono ristampate e ammirate ancora oggi. Donna schietta e dalle opinioni forti, è stata definita dal New York Times “la più grande scrittrice americana della sua epoca”.
Fanny Herself. E-book. Formato PDF ebook
EBOOK   9780259658542

Fanny Herself. E-book. Formato PDF Edna Ferber   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot would revolve. Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae. In extreme cases we have been obliged to witness his evolution from swaddling clothes to dresses, from dresses to shorts (he is so often English), from shorts to Etons.The thrill we get for our pains is when, at twenty five, he jumps over the traces and marries the young lady we met in her cradle on page two. The process is known as a psychological study. A publisher's note on page five hundred and seventy-three assures us that the author is now at work on Volume Two, dealing with the hero's adult life. A third volume will present his pleasing senility. The whole is known as a trilogy. If the chief character is of the other sex we are dragged through her dreamy girlhood, or hoydenish. We see her in her graduation white, in her bridal finery. By the time she is twenty we know her better than her mother ever will, and are infinitely more bored by her.Yet who would exchange one page in the life of the boy, David Copperfield, for the whole chapters dealing with Trotwood Copperfield, the man? Who would relinquish the button-bursting Peggotty for the saintly Agnes?

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