Giant Author:Edna Ferber Leslie Lynnton, beautiful and spirited, trades Virginia for Texas with her husband, Bick Benedict, owner of the Reata Ranch empire. Vast fortunes in cattle and oil contrast with the plight of Mexican laborers, but Texas emerges as tempestuous, exhilarating, exasperating and, above all, "alive." "Marvelous reading -- wealth piled upon wealth, w... more »onder on wonder in a stunning splendiferous pyramid of ostentation." (The New York Times)« less