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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
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Description for Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 280.
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her 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 fiancé on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are ... Read more
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her 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 fiancé on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141195315
SKU
V9780141195315
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About Katherine Anne Porter
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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
V.S. Pritchett Porter's stories take accurate and deadly aim... dazzling
The New York Times
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
V.S. Pritchett Porter's stories take accurate and deadly aim... dazzling
The New York Times