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1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 468 pages)
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ISBN:
9781316036457
Content:
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
Content:
Preface: Rediscovering Pearl Buck -- Missionary childhood -- New worlds -- Winds of change -- The Good Earth -- An exile's return -- The prize -- Wartime -- Losing battles -- Pearl Sydenstricker
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521560801
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521639897
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521560801
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316036457
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