Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas.
Katherine Anne Porter's short stories are unsurpassed in modern fiction -- Robert Penn
Porter writes English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary fiction -- Edmund Wilson
She solves the essential problem: how to satisfy exhaustively in writing briefly -- VS. Pritchett
Porter's stories take accurate and deadly aim... dazzling * The New York Times *
Porter writes English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary fiction -- Edmund Wilson
She solves the essential problem: how to satisfy exhaustively in writing briefly -- VS. Pritchett
Porter's stories take accurate and deadly aim... dazzling * The New York Times *
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) lived a long life which fluctuated between glamour and loneliness. Porter experienced firsthand many of the most iconic events of the twentieth century and wrote about most of them. Growing up on a farm in Texas at the end of the nineteenth century, she was a lifelong advocate of liberal social politics, and worked as a journalist on the American home-front during the First World War; she barely survived the influenza epidemic of 1918; moved to Greenwich village during its heyday as a center of radical politics and bohemian artists; lived in Mexico during and after its failed revolution; was in Europe during the rise of Nazism; and returned to the US during the Cold War and rabid McCarthyism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141195315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141195312 |
| Title | Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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