Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. Andrew (as he is called in the book) set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until...
Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. Andrew (as he is called in the book) set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until...
This is the biography of an American missionary in China. It is the life story of Pearl Buck?s father. Only the names of the people are changed. Absalom Sydenstricker (1852?1931) (renamed Andrew in the book) was the eighth of nine children born to a Presbyterian farming family...
Excerpt from Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul But the omission told as much as anything. For indeed the story was the story not of man or woman or child but of one soul and its march through time to its appointed end. For this soul there was birth, predestined, a duty...