Pearl Buck in China Journey to the Good Earth

Name: Pearl Buck in China Journey to the Good Earth
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781416540434

ISBN-10: 1416540431

ISBN-13: 9781416540434

Edition: 2010

Authors: Hilary Spurling

List price: $18.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $9.36

Buy new: $14.59

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.65

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China's future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China's building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 6/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Hilary Spurling was born in 1940 in Stockport England. She attended Somerville College in Oxford. She bacame the arts and theater critic for The Spectator during the 1960's. She was also the reviewer for The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. She has written several biographies including Pearl Buck in China and Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954, which won the 2005 Whitebread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize for Biography in 2006.



Map


Foreword: Burying the Bones



Family of Ghosts



Mental Bifocals



The Spirit and the Flesh



Inside the Doll's House



Thinking in Chinese



In the Mirror of Her Fiction



The Stink of Condescension


Postscript: Paper People


Sources and Acknowledgments


Key to Sources


Notes


Note on Transliteration


Index