Pearl Buck in China (Library Edition) : Journey to The Good Earth (CD-Audio)

from bookwoman247

Obviously this is a biography of the author Pearl Buck. Emphasis was on the forces that shaped her as a writer. I'd never read a biography of Pearl Buck previously. Of course I knew the basics ... that she had lived in China, and that China had formed her as much or more than the West. I assumed ...

from dickmanikowski

I only knew three things about Pearl Buck: * she wrote The Good Earth * she was the only non-alcoholic American to win a Nobel Prize for Lit * she was the only American woman to win a Nobel But a review I heard on NPR piqued my interest. While trying to secure a library copy of this bio, I read o...

from Knicke

Other than having read and loved The Good Earth, I didn't know much about Pearl Buck before picking this up. She's intriguing enough that I'd like to read more of her work, although this book is fairly critical of much of that. The most exciting bits of this book by FAR are the descriptions of he...

from Kasthu

Before reading this book, the only thing I'd really known about Pearl S. Buck was that she went to the same college as I went to. I'd also read The Good Earth many years ago, but didn't care for it much (or maybe I didn't understand it as well as I might otherwise have). Pearl Buck in China isn't...

from read.to.live

Another audiobook serendipity, riveting and eye-opening. Loses some of its vivid intensity after Buck gets married and the author no longer has the source material of Buck's biographies of her parents, with the emotional truth of Buck's marriage somewhat unclear (perhaps obscured by lack of relia...