The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter: Winner of a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume.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 award-winning short stories, including &#8220Pale Horse, Pale Rider,&#8221 where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and &#8220Noon Wine,&#8221 a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower, as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 09/19/1979
Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.34w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780156188760
Language: English