The Exile (Portrait of An American Mother)
Pearl S. Buck
John Day Publishing
1936, Third Printing
Hardcover
The interior of the book is in very good condition. The binding is strong, pages are intact.
The exterior spine has a tear at the top, Overall the book is in very good condition.
 
The Exile is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non-fiction, written by Pearl S. Buck about her mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker who grew up in West Virginia and lived in China as the wife of the Presbyterian missionary Absalom Sydenstricker.  In Buck's description, Carie built a succession of homes for her children and bestowed charity on neighbors and strangers even as she offered unbending moral judgment on her family.
 
As well as being a beautifully written account of a dramatic life, The Exile reveals Buck herself more deeply than in her other works, showing the profound influence her mother had on Buck’s life and her novels.

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Antique Book The Exile Pearl S Buck 1936 Edition Hardcover Classic Fiction American Literature Home Library