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Show Boat, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of Language and Literatures American and Canadian literature
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Parthy Ann Hawkes should be one of the most beloved characters in all of American literature -- alongside Jay Gatsby, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Atticus Finch. She is at once a sartorial Presbyterian wife and mother and a school marm caricature, but that is okay, because she was a school marm and Ferber does not fail to make her eternally endearing as she constantly nags her husband and her daughter. I will return to this book again and again. Ferber successfully creates a setting and mood that feels genuine and plucked right out of history, although it may be slightly romanticized, as a theater troupe sails up and down the Mississippi bringing the best of bad American theater to the American people of the soil.
It reminded me on occasion of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie," but only because the second half of the book is set in Chicago and it involves a couple's financial struggles: one a gambler, the other an actor. The similarities, pretty much, end there.
It's too bad that the musical version has become more popular, even though it has given American some wonderful music. Two things I wish had been included in the book: 1) more about Jo and Queenie (they disappear halfway through the story), 2) I wish Ferber had actually spent time on Parthy's arrival in Chicago to witness her daughter's situation (she skipped over it and returned to it briefly in one or two paragraphs). Other than that, I throughly enjoyed this book and will certainly return to it again in future.