Portrait of a Marriage - Pearl S. Buck

Portrait of a Marriage

By Pearl S. Buck

  • Release Date: 2013-05-21
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 73 Ratings

Description

A wealthy painter falls in love with an illiterate Pennsylvania farm girl in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth.
 At the turn of the century, an upper-class painter from Philadelphia goes searching for inspiration. He finds his muse on a farm—the farmer’s beautiful and humble daughter. His portrait of her becomes one of his most inspired works, but his passion for the illiterate girl doesn’t stop at the easel: He returns to marry her and settle down to country life—a journey that means bridging enormous gaps between their cultures, breaking from his parents, and creating tension between their friends. Pearl S. Buck compassionately imagines both sides of the complex marriage, and in addition, creates a wonderfully vivid picture of America leading up to the Second World War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Reviews

  • Portarait of a Marriage

    5
    By The Pilot's Daughter
    These beautiful, complex characters are both endearing and incredibly frustrating. Coming from far different backgrounds, they never attempt to change one another, but devote their lives to each other. Perhaps in today's society such a relationship hardly seems plausible or even valued, though much beauty lies in their steadfast devotion to each other despite their vastly different relationship with the world. I often felt frustrated with the depth of Ruth's love, patience and acceptance of what one might see as completely self absorbed man. Yet his love for her is so tender, so complete, so pure that he too exhibits great tenderness and knowledge of her needs. A very, very interesting character study.

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