THIS PROUD HEART. Pearl S. Buck (author), Triangle Books, New York, 1943.
 
Fiction Novel
Psychological Fiction, Domestic Fiction
Vintage from the 1940s
 
All American love story, of a girl with a creative genius whose heart cried both for love and for art but wasn't big enough for both.
 
The book narrates the experience of a gifted sculptor and her struggle to reconcile her absorbing career with society’s domestic expectations. Susan Gaylord is talented, loving, equipped with a strong moral sense, and adept at anything she puts her hand to, from housework to playing the piano to working with marble and clay. But the intensity of her artistic calling comes at a price, isolating her from other people—at times, even from her own family. When her husband dies and she remarries, she finds herself once again comparing the sacrifice of solitude to that of commitment.
 
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women’s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. 
 
Green hardcover with a black spine title, a front black center design, and all edges red. Secure binding with clean pages and a mild top spine shift. Light wear to the cover and extremities and a small damp stain near the top outer fore edge page. The jacket has some small tears/creases at the spine ends, with rubbing at the front fore edge flap, and light wear to the corner tips. About 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 with 371 pages.
 
Reprinted August 1943 (May, June, August at copyright page). Originally published by Pearl S. Buck in 1938. The inside bottom corner of the rear flap (of the jacket) states: THIS PROUND HEART Pearl S. Buck No. 407). Scarce with jacket!