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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Spurling, Hilary
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9781416540434
- Book Title
- Pearl Buck in China : Journey to the Good Earth
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women Authors, General, American / General, Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 12.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1416540431
ISBN-13
9781416540434
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102880127
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pearl Buck in China : Journey to the Good Earth
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Women Authors, General, American / General, Literary, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A compelling study of a woman who tried to make sense of the poverty, violence and suffering she saw as a child in rural China by setting down everything that happened to her, stripping away both the lies of her family and society in her search for self-identity and truth. Spurling's penetrating insight and virtuoso style create a fascinating portrait of an author's coming of age." --Jennet Conant, author of Tuxedo Park and The Irregulars, “An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic.� Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books, “Penetrating. . . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . . The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. . . . It’s a good story, easily as curious as any Buck herself put to paper.� Dwight Garner, The New York Times, "Hilary Spurling has given us a riveting, multi-dimensional portrait of a writer torn between her Chinese childhood and her American roots. Haunting, yet firmly rooted in Chinese history, Pearl Buck in China shows the real Pearl Buck behind the well-known iconic image." --Hannah Pakula, author of The Last Empress, "Ms. Spurling is an exquisite writer, and Pearl Buck in China is beautifully paced." -- The Wall Street Journal, Advance Praise for Pearl Buck in China "Pearl Buck is one of the greatest writers on China, and Hilary Spurling has brought her and the China of her time to life with amazing immediacy and perception." --Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, " Hilary Spurling's riveting biography should bring Buck, and her work, back to the forefront of public consciousness as China once again looms large in our political and cultural lives. A marvellous book." --Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times (London) and author of Ariel's Gift, '"Hilary Spurling's riveting biography should bring Buck, and her work, back to the forefront of public consciousness as China once again looms large in our political and cultural lives. A marvellous book."? --Erica Wagner, literary editor ofThe Times(London) and author ofAriel's Gift, " Pearl Buck in China is one of those exceedingly rare biographies where the reader senses the most powerful connection between author and subject, enabling remarkably sensitive understanding and insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Penetrating. . . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . . The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. . . . It's a good story, easily as curious as any Buck herself put to paper." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times, "Ms. Spurling is an exquisite writer, and Pearl Buck in China is beautifully paced." -- The Wall Street Journal, "An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic." --Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books, Advance Praise forPearl Buck in China'"Pearl Buck is one of the greatest writers on China, and Hilary Spurling has brought her and the China of her time to life with amazing immediacy and perception."? --Jung Chang, author ofWild Swans, “Ms. Spurling is an exquisite writer, and Pearl Buck in China is beautifully paced.� The Wall Street Journal, "Ms. Spurling is an exquisite writer, and Pearl Buck in China is beautifully paced." - The Wall Street Journal, "An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic." --Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books, "Hilary Spurling has given us a riveting, multi-dimensional portrait of a writer torn between her Chinese childhood and her American roots. Haunting, yet firmly rooted in Chinese history,Pearl Buck in Chinashows the real Pearl Buck behind the well-known iconic image."? --Hannah Pakula, author ofThe Last Empress, " Pearl Buck in China is one of those exceedingly rare biographies where the reader senses the most powerful connection between author and subject, enabling remarkably sensitive understanding and insight." - San Francisco Chronicle, "Penetrating. . . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . . The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. . . . It's a good story, easily as curious as any Buck herself put to paper." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times, "Boldly conceived and magnificently written, original, enlightening, and with a narrative as thrilling as an epic film, Pearl Buck in China is a triumphant landmark in the development of creative biography." --Elaine Showalter, author of A Jury of Her Peers, "An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic." -Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books, "From its wonderful opening sentence to its poignant close, this is a superb biography. Spurling has brought her characters to robust life. Readers will learn what they need to know about China in that tumultuous time and place at the beginning of the 20th century." --Peter Conn, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, author of Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, "A compelling study of a woman who tried to make sense of the poverty, violence and suffering she saw as a child in rural China by setting down everything that happened to her, stripping away both the lies of her family and society in her search for self-identity and truth. Spurling's penetrating insight and virtuoso style create a fascinating portrait of an author's coming of age."? --Jennet Conant, author ofTuxedo ParkandThe Irregulars, "From its wonderful opening sentence to its poignant close, this is a superb biography. Spurling has brought her characters to robust life. Readers will learn what they need to know about China in that tumultuous time and place at the beginning of the 20th century."--Peter Conn, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, author ofPearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, " Pearl Buck in China is one of those exceedingly rare biographies where the reader senses the most powerful connection between author and subject, enabling remarkably sensitive understanding and insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Boldly conceived and magnificently written, original, enlightening, and with a narrative as thrilling as an epic film,Pearl Buck in Chinais a triumphant landmark in the development of creative biography."--Elaine Showalter, author ofA Jury of Her Peers, “ Pearl Buck in China is one of those exceedingly rare biographies where the reader senses the most powerful connection between author and subject, enabling remarkably sensitive understanding and insight.� San Francisco Chronicle, "Penetrating. . . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . . The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. . . . It's a good story, easily as curious as any Buck herself put to paper." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Dewey Decimal
813/.52 B
Synopsis
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 between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl's life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang's Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people-- "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.
LC Classification Number
PS3503.U198Z845 2010
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Copyright Date
2010
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