Katherine Anne Porter
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.
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.
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