Fighting angel
portrait of a soul
by Pearl S. Buck
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This is the life story of Pearl Buck's father. Only the names of the people are changed. Sydenstricker was a contradictory and irascible man, isolated him from the rest of the missionary community, but he was also a man of stern convictions and complex personality sufficient reason to look again into the lives of individuals in order to gain understanding of today's Chinese church.
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"A John Day book."
"Fighting angel, the biography of the author's father, is a companion volume to The exile, which is a biography of her mother. Together they form a work to be entitled The spirit and the flesh." -- 1st prelim. leaf.
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The story of a North American missionary, the author's father, who travelled the roads of China for more than fifty years.
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| December 14, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
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