Great son
1st ed.
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Publication
1945 - Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc., Garden City, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
70,250 words, Guess
Page Count
281 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6491635M
- OCLC Control Number284250
- OCLC Control Numbergreatson00ferb
- Library of Congress Control Number45035008
- LibraryThing431457
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.F380 Gr
Description
Originally published in 1945, the triumphant novel of a great American family dynasty in the Pacific Northwest, by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber. Great Son tells the story of four generations of the Melendys, a family grown rich and ill at ease, who watched Seattle grow from a village to a skyscraper town, who felt the rhythm and sweep of America in the building, and the call of the Alaskan gold fields. There is Madam Exact Melendy, who saw Seattle grow from an Indian camp to the wonder city of the Northwest, and Vaughan, her son, who wrested three fortunes from the wilderness, but yielded to the domination of three women. Finally, there is Mike Melendy, a clear-eyed representative of the new generation, who, feeling there was no place to go but up, took to flying. With her signature colorful prose, Edna Ferber brings to life the triumphant story of the magnificent Melendy men and women.
Description
Story begins when Seattle was first settled, and carries the reader through time to the Alaskan gold rush, ending at the time of World War II with four generations of the Melendys.
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