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6%OFFEdna Ferber - Roast Beef, Medium - 9780252069451 - V9780252069451
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Roast Beef, Medium

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Description for Roast Beef, Medium Paperback. Emma McChesney is a smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T A Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. Like her compact bag of traveling necessities, Emma has her life boiled down to essentials: her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock. This title chronicles the travels and trials of Emma. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 361.
 
Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913. The stories featured Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T. A. Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. With one hand on her sample case and the other fending off advances from salesmen, hotel clerks, and other predators, Emma holds on tightly to her reputation: honest, hardworking, and able to outsell the slickest salesman.
 
Like her compact bag of traveling necessities, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069451
SKU
V9780252069451
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for Roast Beef, Medium
"A brave, fun-loving, human book, the best that Miss Ferber has yet given us."
New York Times Listed as a "classic return" by Library Journal "Everyone should read Edna Ferber ... and why not start with this engaging tale of a stylish Midwestern traveling saleswoman? Originally published in 1913, this story captures the humor and talent for social observation ... Read more

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