Heralded by one reviewer as "the most serious, extended and dignified of [Edna] Ferber's books," Fanny Herself is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. 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.
"You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs. Brandeis," Ferber begins, and likewise the story of Fanny Brandeis is inextricable from that of her vigorous, enterprising mother. Molly Brandeis is the owner and operator of Brandeis' Bazaar, a modest general store left to her by her idealistic, commercially inept late husband. As Fanny strives to carve out her own sense of herself, Molly becomes the standard by which she measures her intellectual and spiritual progress.
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. She is accompanied on her journey by impeccably drawn characters such as Father Fitzpatrick, the Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove department of the Haynes-Cooper mail order house; Fanny's brother, Theodore, a gifted violinist for whose musical education Molly sacrifices Fanny's future; and Clarence Heyl, the scrappy columnist who never forgot how Fanny rescued him from the school bullies.
Ferber's only work of fiction with a strong autobiographical element, 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.
"You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs. Brandeis," Ferber begins, and likewise the story of Fanny Brandeis is inextricable from that of her vigorous, enterprising mother. Molly Brandeis is the owner and operator of Brandeis' Bazaar, a modest general store left to her by her idealistic, commercially inept late husband. As Fanny strives to carve out her own sense of herself, Molly becomes the standard by which she measures her intellectual and spiritual progress.
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. She is accompanied on her journey by impeccably drawn characters such as Father Fitzpatrick, the Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove department of the Haynes-Cooper mail order house; Fanny's brother, Theodore, a gifted violinist for whose musical education Molly sacrifices Fanny's future; and Clarence Heyl, the scrappy columnist who never forgot how Fanny rescued him from the school bullies.
Ferber's only work of fiction with a strong autobiographical element, 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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Hardback Editions
2017 : Hardback
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2011 : Hardback
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September 2010 : Hardback
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August 2008 : Hardback
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August 2008 : Hardback
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June 2008 : Hardback
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May 2008 : Hardback
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January 2004 : Hardback
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February 2002 : Hardback
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June 2001 : Hardback
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December 1975 : Hardback
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January 1948 : Hardback
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January 1923 : Hardback
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January 1917 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
March 2012 : Paperback
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August 2011 : Paperback
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July 2011 : Paperback
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September 2010 : Paperback
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September 2010 : Paperback
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March 2010 : Paperback
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March 2010 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Paperback
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May 2009 : Paperback
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October 2008 : Paperback
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December 2007 : Paperback
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October 2007 : Paperback
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October 2007 : Paperback
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October 2007 : Paperback
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May 2007 : Paperback
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February 2007 : Paperback
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February 2007 : Paperback
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November 2006 : Paperback
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May 2005 : Paperback
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June 2004 : Paperback
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March 2004 : Paperback
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March 2002 : Paperback
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April 2001 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
September 2002 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Fanny Herself Author(s): Edna Ferber ISBN: 1-893079-22-8 / 9781893079229 (USA edition) Publisher: Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
April 2000 : Audio Cassette
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January 1995 : Audio Cassette
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October 2010 : Kindle edition
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October 2009 : Kindle edition
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July 2004 : Kindle edition
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1944 : Unknown
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1923 : Unknown
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