Show Boat
| Year of Publication |
1926
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
341 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Doubleday, Page, & Company
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| City |
Garden City, NY
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| Abstract |
A panoramic saga about three generations of performers on a Mississippi River show boat that travels the river and its tributaries. The floating theater is towed up the Ohio River as far as Pittsburgh and even the Monongahela River and its coal fields.
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| Author Biography |
Edna Ferber (1885-1968), a Jew born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a prolific writer of place-based fiction with strong female protagonists. In 1925, her novel So Big (1924) won the Pulitzer Prize. Ferber published two novels that both became popular movies, Cimarron (1930) and Giant (1952). She died in New York City.
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| Time |
1880s-1920s
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