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In this last publication of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Ferber's series boasting the indomitable Emma McChesney, Emma's newly married boy Jock has relocated to Chicago, departing Emma an empty-nester. Her hidden knowledge romance and pending nuptials stall when their company is thrown into an uproar at the level of the advertising season. To beat her long-time nemesis and take the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company international, the always-competitive Emma sails off on a whirlwind tour of SOUTH USA, while T.A. will take his first sales trip into her old stomping floor, the midwest. Returning to NYC, Emma is confronted with stressing changes in T.A. and fashion trends forcing corset lingerie manufacturers into bankruptcy. Against the background of the intensifying political actions of the early 20th century, Emma and T.A. must draw together if they are to rebrand their business and create a life together. Fans of the series' earlier volumes, Roast Beef Medium and Personality Plus, will see Emma McChesney & Co. filled with Ferber's trademark razor-sharp wit and humorous observations highlighting society's foibles.
