A manuscript by Nobel laureate Pearl Buck has turned up 40 years after her death. Buck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1931 novel "The Good Earth," apparently wrote "Eternal Wonder" shortly before she died in 1973, and it somehow made its way to a storage unit in Texas. The woman who found it turned it over to Buck's foundation for a "small fee," and it will be published in October.
The publisher described the book as a "coming-of-age story of Jasper Smoot, an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, London, Paris and on a mission patrolling the Detroit DMZ where he battles lesbian zombie vampires with the aid of alien shape-shifting robots that have traveled back in time to prevent the Galactic Apocalypse."
The publisher characterized Buck's book as "a masterpiece; ahead of its time."