With a Delicate Air and Other Stories Pearl S. Buck

61681) With a Delicate Air and Other Stories , Pearl S. Buck , Methuen Co Ltd London 1962 , first edition
Contents :
A Certain Star
The Beauty
Enchantment
With a Delicate Air
Beyond Language
Parable of Plain People
The Commander and the Commissar
Begin to Live
The Engagement
Melissa
Gift of Laughter
Death and the Dawn
The Silver Butterfly
Francesca
In this collection of fourteen short stories, just as much as in her novels, Pearl Buck displays her talents of story-telling and of quick characterization. She shows, too, her easy wit, her deft turn of phrase, and above all the range of interests that she has made so very much her own, especially the nature and customs of Asian people, the relation- ship of East to West, universal family life, and the eternal subtleties of the interplay between man and woman.

With a Delicate Air tells the story of an American household where the son brings home a beautiful young Japanese wife. Setsue`s disturbing presence threatens to destroy the whole faç ade behind which the family shelters; nevertheless it is through her that they eventually find happiness and a true understanding of themselves.

Four of these stories have never been pub- lished before, and the others are published for the first time in book form.
; good condition hard cover, dust jacket , size 14 x 20,5 cm english ,256 pages ,