- Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Contains three short novels, -- Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine, Texas and a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota and of the tragedy that ended it all; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and death, set at the time of the flu epidemic. --Kirkus Reviews.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Katherine Anne Porter
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- The New American Library, Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Modern Library
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780151707508
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“She was a spirited-looking young woman, with dark curly hair cropped and parted on the side, a short oval face with straight eyebrows, and a large curved mouth.”
"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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