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  <title><![CDATA[Show Boat: A Facsimile of the 1926 Edition]]></title>
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  <default_description>Edna Ferber&amp;#8217;s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap&amp;#8217;n Andy, his shrewd wife Parthy, and their beautiful daughter Magnolia her remarkable daughter Kim was made famous on Broadway in 1927, when the legendary Jerome S. Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on the musical. Since then it has become a beloved favorite, revived repeatedly to entertain generations with haunting and lyrical songs such as &amp;#8220;Old Man River&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Can&amp;#8217;t Help Lovin&amp;#8217; That Man of Mine.&amp;#8221;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edna Ferber]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1965</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me away from a difficult childhood and helped me escape into the world of books. It was a large and involved three generation, post civil war story of a strong, rigid Parhenia Hawks whose husband wanted to purchase a showboat and involved their children in the world of theatre. She wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28165004">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 10:07:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know that seminal story from your childhood?  The one you watched/read/listened to so often that your parents were ready to bribe you out of doing so again in order to save their own sanity?  For me, that story was Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's <em>Show Boat</em>.  Specifically, a tape-recording of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54129977">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great read for those of you who like the whole &quot;compare/ contrast&quot; thing from novel to screenplay. I find it hard to enjoy the picture or perforamce as well as the one that Ferber paints in my head, so I usually lean towards the original format of the novel. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 19:18:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 19:29:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unusual and very American.  The characters are characters.  What can I say?  There is nothing predictable about this story.  Somehow it captures the feeling of frontier America and the coming modern age.  I'm a fan.]]></body>
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    <review id="69045841">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Edna Ferber.  This was a fun trip down the Mississippi, which a world I know nothing about.  And I had no idea this is where the musical came from.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so much better than the old musical! The storyline is actually very different. Not my favorite Ferber, but still very American and always interesting.]]></body>
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    <review id="59009492">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edna Ferber writes nice stories about interesting people in American settings. I enjoyed this book as an easy read with not alot of meat. If your book club has people with mother issues it might spark lively conversation.]]></body>
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    <review id="16508696">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A river story, an adventure story, a story of strong women, a fantastic book all around!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am still reading - She's a master of rich vocabulary.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seems good for a Masterpiece Theatre type treatment.]]></body>
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