Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
  • Published: 11 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141195315
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

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

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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.
  • Published: 11 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141195315
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

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
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