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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2015
      26 August 1996
      ISBN:
      9781316036457
      9780521560801
      9780521639897
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316036457
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 500 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.745kg, 500 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History
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    American History: General Interest, Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History
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    One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.

    Awards

    Winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature

    Reviews

    ‘A fascinating book and one that is, for all its scholarly apparatus and methodical presentation of data, as much of a page turner as anything Buck ever wrote ... Peter Conn’s biography is an indispensable resource.’

    Source: New York Times Book Review

    ‘Peter Conn, Buck’s biographer, has done an amazing job of reminding us about Pearl Buck, and about our own recent past. Conn came to this project not through her books ... but through one of Buck’s agencies. He’s responded, paid his debt, with almost Chinese filial piety, in writing this elegant, absorbing book.’

    Source: Washington Post

    ‘Expertly written, not only a biography but as political history as well.’

    Source: Library Journal

    ‘With straightforward prose and balanced assessment of her accomplishments, Conn convinces us that Pearl Buck was a great person indeed.’

    Source: Booklist

    ‘[T]his brilliantly conceived biography steers a sympathetic yet intelligently balanced course, revealing in fascinating detail the gripping life story of a compelling woman.’

    Source: Publishers Weekly

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