Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Porter, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679603034 ISBN 13: 9780679603030

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1998

Synopsis

"Noon Wine," "Old Mortality," and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" make up a collection of classic novellas by the late Pulitzer Prize-winner that features the story of a single woman whose pursuit of independence veers into the reckless.

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From the Back Cover:

She was a spirited-looking young woman, with dark curly hair cropped and parted on the side, a short oval face with straight eyebrows, and a large curved mouth. A round white collar rose from the neck of her tightly buttoned black basque, and round white cuffs set off lazy hands with dimples in them, lying at ease in the folds of her flounced skirt which gathered around to a bustle.

From the Inside Flap:

"Most good stories are about the interior of our lives, but Katherine Anne Porter's stories take place there," said Eudora Welty. "They show surface only at her choosing."
   Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's short novels or long stories, as Porter--who didn't hold with the term "novella"--called her pieces. In the masterly "Noon Wine," set on a Texas farm circa 1900, she offers an unforgettable study of evil. According to Reynolds Price the tale "can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything in Tolstoy or Chekhov." Both "Old Mortality" and the title story center on Porter's fictional counterpart, Miranda: a resilient Southern heroine who, as Mary Gordon observed, is in "the precarious position of a woman who must earn her way with no one behind her to break her fall."
  "Many of Katherine Anne Porter's stories

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679603034
• ISBN 13: 9780679603030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272