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BURYING THE BONES
PEARL BUCK'S LIFE IN CHINA |
| By: |
Hilary Spurling |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1861978286 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781861978288 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2010 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Pearl Buck, one of the bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist, was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. This biography presents a portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Buck. |
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This is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Buck's father was a terrifying figure, with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion - a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the family's budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament, while his aggrieved, long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children, several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author, but in this startlingly original biography, Spurling recounts with elegance and great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Profile Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2010 (Australia) |
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