Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Penguin Modern Classics)

Porter, Katherine Anne

ISBN 10: 0141195312 ISBN 13: 9780141195315

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

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 expressed in prose both brilliant and precise.

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Review:

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)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141195312
• ISBN 13: 9780141195315
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Number of pages: 384