Roast Beef Medium eBook Edna Ferber
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Roast Beef Medium eBook Edna Ferber
Savvy, straight-talking, and self-reliant, Emma McChesney, is as witty and entertaining as the “fast-talking dames” found in old movies, but it’s closer to 1910 than 1930 or 40. Emma’s an early career woman, working as the Midwest sales representative for T.A. Buck’s Featherloom skirts and petticoats, and most of her life is spent on the road--traveling by train, sleeping in hotels, meeting the most interesting people, and outsmarting the male sales reps who are her competition. She’s still stylish and attractive enough to make a man hope, but as a hardworking divorced mother dependant on her income she’s a stickler about her reputation.Roast Beef Medium is the first of three books about the adventures of Emma McChesney. Edna Ferber, also the author of Giant and Show Boat, wrote the McChesney books long enough ago that they’re all in the public domain and ebook copies of them can be downloaded from sites like Project Gutenberg. I listened to a wonderfully narrated Libravox recording, also free, which kept me grinning even when stuck in traffic.
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Roast Beef Medium eBook Edna Ferber Reviews
Edna Ferber is hands down one of the BEST writers ever (in my opinion anyway). True to her form, this is an excellent read. Whats even better is it is on (and FREE). Ferber books (in "real" book form, anyway) are hard to come across. It made my day to find this one (which I have been searching for) so readily available in format. If you liked Show Boat, Giant, So Big etc you will love this, too.
This novel portrays a woman who goes around the country selling petticoats. As a woman she has unique problems as she is not always readily accepted by the retailers she needs to sell to. She endures mediocre food and over time learns that "roast beef medium" is a safe choice. Character development is also good for herself, her son, and a piano playing competitor. She doesn't marry in the end. More a novela than a full length novel.
I have never read Edna Ferber before. This was my first introduction to this ground breaking and humorous writer of the early 20th century. I now want to read everything she has written.
It is a story of an early 20th century traveling saleswoman who REALLY has to push through the all male sexist fraternity. Ahead of its time. Well written. I was really routing for Mrs. McChesney. I wanted to see her succeed.
I would have given it 5 stars, because it IS classic Edna Ferber, but the illustrations did not come through on the kindle. Shame. Those illustrations are period to the story.
For free, it's a great Ferber read. Go for it and keep in mind the uphill battle our our heroine.
I was very surprised by this book. It was published before women could even vote but it's a smart story of the adventures of a woman who travels the country by train as a skirt saleswoman. I think any woman can identify with Emma as she struggles to make a life for herself and her son, Jock. I had no idea that Edna Ferber won a Pulitzer and also wrote Showboat and Giant. Remarkable woman who created remarkable characters.
I believe that Ms. Ferber, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1925, was always writing ahead of the time she lived in. She wrote almost every novel (among them "Giant", "Showboat", and "Saratoga Trunk") as well as this one, "Roast Beef, Medium", about a strong female who was fighting to have a stable life in circumstances outside of the norm of women of the time.
This book concerns a woman who is a traveling saleswoman. She's on the road selling women's petticoats; she knows her rivals (all men) by sight; she resists their multiple advances, and she doesn't let herself be pushed out of selling to a client by a bluff, genial opponent. She outwits other salesmen by dint of intelligence and sheer hard work. Her life is by necessity excruciatingly self-disciplined; she can't afford to ever give in, get lazy, be run down or less than a professional. She refuses to be downtrodden by the grind of the male-dominated world she's in. She knows which rooms at a hotel to take and which ones to refuse because the clerk assumes she is worthy of less consideration than a man; she knows what to eat in the endless succession of restaurants she's in night after night thus the title of the book.
She's feminine and always appears in public perfectly groomed -- she cannot afford to be anything other than what seems like a paragon.
But somehow Ms. Ferber gets into her heart; she is working to keep herself and her son Jock in respectable circumstances, and she continually rises to challenges which, like the opposing wind, lift her higher. She has all the doubts and faults of all the women I know, but has set her will to live a life she can own up to without shame. I LIKE this woman and hope you will as well -- she represents women who fought so my road, the road of all of us now, would be smoother.
Early work by Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968), part of the Emma McChesney series about a woman working in sales around the turn of the century, by a skilled author who had lived in that time.. Ferber was among the most popular American authors of the first half and middle of the 20th century, and quite a few of her short stories and books were made into movies, most famously "Giant". Writing style was different from the pacing of today; readers who can adjust will be well-rewarded by her fiction and nonfiction.
Savvy, straight-talking, and self-reliant, Emma McChesney, is as witty and entertaining as the “fast-talking dames” found in old movies, but it’s closer to 1910 than 1930 or 40. Emma’s an early career woman, working as the Midwest sales representative for T.A. Buck’s Featherloom skirts and petticoats, and most of her life is spent on the road--traveling by train, sleeping in hotels, meeting the most interesting people, and outsmarting the male sales reps who are her competition. She’s still stylish and attractive enough to make a man hope, but as a hardworking divorced mother dependant on her income she’s a stickler about her reputation.
Roast Beef Medium is the first of three books about the adventures of Emma McChesney. Edna Ferber, also the author of Giant and Show Boat, wrote the McChesney books long enough ago that they’re all in the public domain and ebook copies of them can be downloaded from sites like Project Gutenberg. I listened to a wonderfully narrated Libravox recording, also free, which kept me grinning even when stuck in traffic.
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