Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
One of America’s most influential and admired short story writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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 minglin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141195315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141195312 |
| Author: | Katherine Anne Porter, Sarah Churchwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Katherine Anne Porter’s short stories are unsurpassed in modern fiction
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
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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