I do love me some Edna Ferber. The thing about her books is that they always read like big Technicolor epic movies, way before such a thing existed. They certainly didn’t in 1929, when this was published. But so many have been turned into such, like this book (twice, first time winning one of the first Best Picture Academy Awards), Show Boat, Giant, and Saratoga Trunk, to name a few. So our hero, Yancy Cravat, is a hot bull-headed force of nature. Think Clark Gable […]
Just Your Basic Oklahoma Western
Cimarron by Edna Ferber