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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

By Katherine Anne Porter
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a collection of beautifully crafted tales exploring the complexities of human relationships and moral ambiguity. Through vivid characterisation and sharp prose, Porter delves into themes of love, loss, and the struggle for personal identity amidst societal pressures. Each story is rich with historical depth and psychological insight, showcasing Porter's masterfully evocative style.
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You might enjoy this collection if you appreciate beautifully crafted short stories that delve into complex themes such as love, mortality, and the human condition. This work may appeal to you if you are drawn to rich character development and find satisfaction in narratives that blend personal introspection with broader historical contexts.

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

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.

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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 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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Katherine Anne Porter's collection of stories is highly praised for its unmatched quality in modern fiction. Critics admire her precise and pure use of the English language. She masterfully crafts brief narratives that are both satisfying and powerful, with The New York Times noting the stories' striking accuracy and brilliance.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141195315

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 November 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Sarah Churchwell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 287g

Pages: 384

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Fiction General Fiction Katherine Anne Porter Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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.

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