WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. Giant love: Edna Ferber, her best-selling novel of Texas, and the making of a classic American film

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"A book that explores the ... American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction--whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies. [It specifically examines] the writing of her controversial, international bestselling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens's Academy Award-winning epic film of the same name: Giant"--