Fighting angel
Subtitle: portrait of a soul
By: by Pearl S. Buck ...
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Sydenstricker, Absalom, 1852-1931; Missions -- China
Description: 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.
Notes: "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.