Pearl S. Buck | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Pearl S. Buck.
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Pearl S. Buck | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Pearl S. Buck.
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SOURCE: "Man and Mushrooms," in Saturday Review, Vol. 42, No. 20, May 16, 1959, p. 31.

In the following review, Lipsky asserts that the scientific story dwarfs the human story of Buck's Command the Morning.

In Laura Fermi's account of her life with Enrico Fermi, Atoms in the Family, there appears a photograph of Fermi waiting to receive the Nobel Prize for science in 1933 at Stockholm. In that same picture, there also appears Pearl Buck, waiting to receive the prize for literature. The scientist seems unimpressed by the occasion, but Mrs. Buck appears tense and deeply affected.

Perhaps it was this encounter that first aroused Mrs. Buck's interest in science, for Fermi looms large in her latest novel, Command the Morning, which deals with the human side of the quest for nuclear energy. Her concern for the problem is well known. She has spent many days at Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos, she...

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