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Book of the Week: Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones

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Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones

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Marrying in haste and soon repentful, Pearl Buck discovers that writing lets her escape.

Marrying in haste and soon repentful, Pearl Buck discovers that writing lets her escape from her difficulties. Read by Lindsay Duncan.

Lindsay Duncan reads another excerpt from Hilary Spurling's new book: "Burying The Bones". The distinguished biographer's new subject is the astonishing life of Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck, one of the most successful and popular American novelists of the 20th Century. (She's best remembered for her novel "The Good Earth", which is still a bestseller.)

Pearl's desire for independence led her to make a hasty marriage of which her family disapproved. Refusing to be cowed by a series of personal tragedies, she discovered that her imagination offered escape from her difficulties and she began to write fiction in earnest.

Abridger: Alison Joseph
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

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Lindsay Duncan reads from Hilary Spurling's biography of the American writer Pearl Buck

Lindsay Duncan reads from Hilary Spurling's biography of Pearl Buck, the influential American writer whose novels helped change Western perceptions of China forever

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