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Fanny herself

A warm, wry, and witty chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town at the turn of the 20th century. Packed with the warmth and the wry, sidelong, wit that made Ferber one of the best-loved writers of her time, the novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Fanny's ambivalent feelings about being Jewish, her self-deprecating attitude toward her gift for sketching and drawing, and her inspired success as a businesswoman all contribute to the flesh-and-blood complexity of Ferber's youthful, eminently believable protagonist. Fanny Herself showcases the author's enduring interest in the capacity of strong women to transcend the limitations of their environment and control their own circumstances. Through Fanny's honest struggle with conflicting values--financial security and corporate success versus altruism and artistic integrity -- Ferber grapples with some of the most deeply embedded contradictions of the American spirit.

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  • "A warm, wry, and witty chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town at the turn of the 20th century. Packed with the warmth and the wry, sidelong, wit that made Ferber one of the best-loved writers of her time, the novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Fanny's ambivalent feelings about being Jewish, her self-deprecating attitude toward her gift for sketching and drawing, and her inspired success as a businesswoman all contribute to the flesh-and-blood complexity of Ferber's youthful, eminently believable protagonist. Fanny Herself showcases the author's enduring interest in the capacity of strong women to transcend the limitations of their environment and control their own circumstances. Through Fanny's honest struggle with conflicting values--financial security and corporate success versus altruism and artistic integrity -- Ferber grapples with some of the most deeply embedded contradictions of the American spirit."@en
  • "Fanny Brandeis grows up Jewish in Winnebago, Wisconsin in the early twentieth century."
  • "Fanny Brandeis grows up Jewish in Winnebago, Wisconsin in the early twentieth century."@en
  • "Fanny Brandeis is a small-town midwestern Jewish girl determined to succeed as a businesswoman in the big city, while grappling to remain true to her roots. This semi-autobiographical 1917 novel was one of Ferber's most celebrated books. It also showcases her trademark wry wit."
  • "It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot would revolve. Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae. In extreme cases we have been obliged to witness his evolution from swaddling clothes to dresses, from dresses to shorts (he is so often English), from shorts to Etons. With which modest preamble you are asked to be patient with Miss Fanny Brandeis, aged thirteen. Not only must you suffer Fanny, but Fanny's mother as well, without whom there could be no understanding Fanny. For that matter, we shouldn't wonder if Mrs. Brandeis were to turn out the heroine in the end. She is that kind of person."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "American fiction"@en
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Jewish fiction"
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  • "Fanny herself"
  • "Fanny herself"@en
  • "Das ist Fanny : Roman"
  • "Das ist Fanny : roman"
  • "Das ist Fanny Roman"
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  • "Fanny"
  • "Fanny herself : [a novel]"
  • "Fanny Herself"@en
  • "Fanny Herself"
  • "Fanny : (Overs. efter "Fanny herself")"@da
  • "Fanny Herself, etc"@en
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