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Examples
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Spurling is horribly partial (many observers rated Sonia as a gold-digging drunk) but her grasp of milieu and motivation is first-rate.
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Voracious readers like I was read everything, putting stuff that was (or is) over our heads in the mental box the British writer Francis Spurling called "Don't Get It."
Monica Edinger: A Book About Children's Books for Book Loving Adults Monica Edinger 2010
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Voracious readers like I was read everything, putting stuff that was (or is) over our heads in the mental box the British writer Francis Spurling called "Don't Get It."
Monica Edinger: A Book About Children's Books for Book Loving Adults Monica Edinger 2010
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Following Conn's lead, Spurling further succeeds in making Buck herself a compelling figure, transforming her from dreary lady author into woman warrior.
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After the first 10 years he had spent in China, Spurling tells us, Absalom had made, by his own reckoning, 10 converts.
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Spurling claims that Buck had a magic power possessed by all truly phenomenal best-selling authors to tap directly into currents of memory and dream secreted deep within the popular imagination.
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Spurling is out to change that estimation of Buck.
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This is one of the anecdotes with which Hilary Spurling begins "Pearl Buck in China," her vivid biography of the early years of the now mostly forgotten novelist who was once America's most celebrated writer.
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Spurling quotes liberally from some of Buck's forgotten domestic novels, which defied the mores of her time by depicting sexual despair and revulsion within marriage.
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As Spurling deftly illustrates, that alienation gave Buck her stance as a writer, gracing her with the outsider vision needed to interpret one world to another.
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