Pearl's father, Absalom Sydenstricker
, was obsessed with the compulsion to save souls, haunted by the disproportion between the numbers of heathen Chinese whom he could convert and the number beyond his reach, always ready...
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...
Literary responses
Pearl S. Buck
Spurling
described Fighting Angel as Buck's brief, unsparing, beautifully balanced biography of her father
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Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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Textual Production
Pearl S. Buck
Fighting Angel relies heavily on the reminiscences which PSB
's father
divulged to her in the last years of his life, when his former reticence was at last dissolved and in turn dissolved her resentment...