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...PECULIAR TREASURE-Edna Ferber -Doubleday, Doran...
...popular standards, and by her own, Edna Ferber has been a roaring success. Not only have her fiction and plays made her rich, they have brought her public honors: a Pulitzer Prize, an honorary degree from Columbia University, an invitation to the White House...
...Edna Ferber's explicit explanations for her failure compare strangely with the reasons implicit in her story. Her sense of failure in general comes from her waning popularity, and from a sense of personal shortcoming which she traces to the ominous state of the world, particularly as reflected in the spread of fascism and antiSemitism. But she cannot decide whether she or the world has gone in the wrong direction; whether she has not been serious enough, or whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist...
Born 51 years ago on the right side of the railroad tracks in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a plain, theatre-loving girl with the hair of a Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned...
...hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...