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Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck In China (2010)

by Hilary Spurling(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1861978286 (ISBN13: 9781861978288)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Profile Books

review 1: Pearl Buck indeed grew up in a family of ghosts. I've always liked Buck, but I never realized what a grim life she lived. This is a woman who, as a little girl, helplessly listened to the tormented screaming of people outside while she tried to sleep at night, and during her playtime outside she would stumble upon the murdered bodies of baby girls fed to dogs and bury them out of respect. She bore witness to her mother's long suffering loneliness and her cold-hearted father's religious hubris. Still, Pearl grew up to be as wonderful as she was. This is easily the most page-turning biography I have ever read.
review 2: A quick wrap up of Pearl S. Buck's life and relation to her work and China. I read a short story of hers in college and found it too depressing... more to read anymore of her work. That said, it disturbed me enough to keep me thinking about it all these years, and I can trace my aspects of my outlook on life back to that heart rendering story. I was raised Presbyterian like her and even was told that my greatmother played with her as a child in West Virginia, so the book gives me a vague liberal perspective on my Presbyterian American ancestors. So maybe I'll read some Pearl S. Buck soon. less

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