- Social life and customs, Fiction, National Book Award Winner, American Short stories
Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Katherine Anne Porter
- First published
- April 1, 1970
- Pages
- 516
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Franklin Library, Plume
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780452251397
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“Maria Concepcion walked carefully, keeping to the middle of the white dusty road, where the maguey thorns and the treacherous curved spines of organ cactus had not gathered so profusely.”
"Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil." - Wikipedia
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