Katherine Anne Porter
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918
In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger....
In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger....
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning volume of writings from the author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider—now combined with little-known works of prose for the very first time
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter “writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic...
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter “writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This "dazzling" National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle).
August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship's first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple...
August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship's first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Three short novels that deal with turn of the century family life, a new hired hand, the World War I homefront, and the influenza epidemic.
Old Mortality -- a story of race tracks, the Deep South, and the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine --the story of a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota; and Pale Horse, Pale Rider -- a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. 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. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A complete volume of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author's short stories includes a selection of definitive essays as gathered from her 1952 collection, The Days Before, as well as additional works from her early and later years.
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