{"product_id":"giant-love-julie-gilbert-9781524748432","title":"Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eA book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the making of George Stevens' Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, \u003ci\u003eGiant.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's \u003ci\u003eGiant\u003c\/i\u003e in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with oil-rich Texans threatening to shoot, lynch or ban Ferber from ever entering the state again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGiant Love, \u003c\/i\u003e Julie Gilbert writes of the internationally best-selling Ferber, one of the most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th Century - her evolution from mid-west maverick girl-reporter to Pulitzer Prize winning, beloved American novelist, from her want-to-be actress days to becoming Broadway's acclaimed prize-winning playwright whose collaborators - George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, among them, were, along with Ferber, herself, the most successful playwrights of their time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is the making of an American classic novel and the film that followed in its wake. We see how George Stevens, Academy-Award winning director, wooed the prickly, stubborn Ferber, ultimately getting her to agree to everything including writing, for the first time ever, a draft of a screenplay, to her okaying James Dean for the part of the ranch hand, Jett Rink, something she was dead set against. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is the casting of Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean and their backstory triangle of sex and seduction - each becoming a huge star because of the film; the frustrated Stevens trying to direct the instinctive but undisciplined Dean, and the months long landmark filming in the sleepy town of Marfa, Texas, suddenly invaded by a battalion of a film crew and some of the biggest stars in the rising celebrity culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1524748439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524748432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.97d","brand":"Julie Gilbert","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45898547593471,"sku":"9781524748432","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_914c362a-05ea-42d1-aa8d-8014d99f01d6.jpg?v=1721376565","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/giant-love-julie-gilbert-9781524748432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}