Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN: 9780141195315
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Jan 2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
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 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. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are expressed in prose both brilliant and precise.
ISBN: 9780141195315
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Jan 2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
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 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. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are expressed in prose both brilliant and precise.
