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GEORGE PLATT LTNES
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hy Edna Ferber
THE SCENE: Seattle from village to skyscraper city; the Alaskan gold fields. THE TIME: 1851-1941. THE SUBJECT: Four generations of the marvelous Melendys— a frontier family grown rich and ill at ease. THE AUTHOR: Edna Ferber, who... Tovább

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GEORGE PLATT LTNES
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AlllCriCa . . . because she believes that the most vital theme that American writers can pick is —America. Each of her novels stands as a vivid panel in her growing pageant of our nation—the Chicago midwest of So Big, the Mississippi of Show Boat, the Oklahoma of Cimarron, the New Englajid of American Beauty, the Wisconsin of Come and Get It, and now the Seattle of her new novel, Great Son.
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GREAT SON
hy Edna Ferber
THE SCENE: Seattle from village to skyscraper city; the Alaskan gold fields. THE TIME: 1851-1941. THE SUBJECT: Four generations of the marvelous Melendys— a frontier family grown rich and ill at ease. THE AUTHOR: Edna Ferber, who wrote So Big, Cimarron, Show Boat, and other great novels straight from the heart of America. THE CHARACTERS:
Madam Exact Melendy—At ninety-two, still the clear-eyed, sharp-tongued matriarch of her family and city.
Vaughan Melendy, her son—White-haired giant who mined the family fortune in Alaska where he met the only woman he truly loved.
Emmy Melendy, his wife—Prim little housekeeper whom Vaughan did not love.
Pansy Deleath—^Violet-eyed dancer in the Yukon who fell in love with Vaughan, bore his child, and came to live in a small house below the Melendy mansion.
Dike Melendy, son of Pansy and Vaughan —Married to a glamorous actress, he belonged to the mixed-up middle generation.
Mike Melendy, son of Dike—Clear-eyed, sharp-visioned representative of the new generation. He said: "My crowd, we've got no place left to go but up. My great-grand-pappy and Grandpa Vaughan Melendy and all that gang just came along in covered wagons and grabbed the stuff with their bare hands and then they hitched machinery to it and so now we just sit on our cans and our job is to get up every now and then and oil the machinery. So I get in a plane and go up in the sky. . . . We Melendys have been taking out of America now for about a century. What've we ever put in?" Vissza