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So Big

by: Edna Ferber

Publication date: 2022-05-09

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, sons, 1920s, families, mothers, literary fiction, female authors

LibriVox recording of So Big by Edna Ferber.
Read in English by alexandraatiya and Mark Nelson

The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on her own while managing her deceased husband's farm in Illinois. When So Big grows up, he moves to Chicago, where he finds himself drawn to the fast-money stock-broker lifestyle of the 1920s. So Big is conflicted: he wants to live in the world of speculation and finance, but he's aware that his mother (and his love interest, an artist) are disappointed that he hasn't lived up to the hard-working, hardscrabble values instilled by his mother. - Summary by Alexandra Atiya

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Addeddate: 2022-05-09 23:38:28

Identifier: sobig_2205_librivox

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Reviewer: TwinkieToes - - June 22, 2022
Subject: City vs. Country,

In a way, this story is more about the simple country life vs. the constraining city life, the salt-of-the-earth vs. the social ladder. Or maybe that's only one facet. There are a lot of facets to this story, all very enjoyable.

My ears rebelled at the non-Dutch way the female reader has of saying DeJong and Jan (the J has a Y sound!), but the male reader softened these for me. Other than that pronunciation foible, both readers did very well. I recommend the story.

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