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Secrets of the heart

by Buck, Pearl S. frey50
Published by : John Day Company (New York) , 1976 Physical details: 191 p. ISBN:0381982874.
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Wonderful Woman Here and Now Morning in the Park The Woman in the Waves Secrets of the Heart

Once again, Pearl S. Buck touches the heart by bringing her own spcial insights to the tragedy and joy of love. In "Wonderful Woman," the novella, Elinor lives in the shadow of her husband's dead mother, uintil she rebels. A middle-aged divorcee about to remary is shoked to learn that her daughter, too, will be a bride in "Here and Now" "Morning in the Park" tells of a painter who meets the man who had deserted her and how she reacts to this unexpected encounter. A dead body washed up on shore in "The Woman in the Waves" causes a wife to reveal her own despair to her husband. "Secrets of the Heart" is a story of a woman widowed nineteen years before who still finds ways to keep her husband vivid in her memory.