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Peter Conn - Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography - 9780521639897 - V9780521639897
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography

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Description for Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Paperback. 'An elegant, absorbing book.' Washington Post Num Pages: 500 pages, 43 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521639897
SKU
V9780521639897
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Reviews for Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
'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.' 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 ... Read more

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