Giant (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edna Ferber
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Illinois
- Locales: Texas
Giant opens with a description of a party thrown by the Texan millionaire oilman Jett Rink, which is being attended by a host of other millionaires and their wives, most of them arriving by airplane and speaking in a folksy Texan dialect about inconsequential matters such as clothes.
At first it is difficult to tell which characters are meant to be central, but eventually the focus settles on Mrs. Jordan Benedict (the former Leslie Lynnton) and her regal-looking husband, who goes by the nickname Bick. Leslie makes critical remarks about Texas, saying that despite its size...
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