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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) lived a long life which fluctuated between glamour and loneliness. Porter experienced firsthand many of the most iconic events of the twentieth century and wrote about most of them. Growing up on a farm in Texas at the end of the nineteenth century, she was a lifelong advocate of liberal social politics, and worked as a journalist on the American home-front during the First World War; she barely survived the influenza epidemic of 1918; moved to Greenwich village during its heyday as a center of radical politics and bohemian artists; lived in Mexico during and after its failed revolution; was in Europe during the rise of Nazism; and returned to the US during the Cold War and rabid McCarthyism.

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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 *

Pale Horse Pale Rider The Selected Stories of

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 3 November 2011
      ISBN-13 9780141195315
      978-0141195315
      ISBN-10 0141195312
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Classics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) lived a long life which fluctuated between glamour and loneliness. Porter experienced firsthand many of the most iconic events of the twentieth century and wrote about most of them. Growing up on a farm in Texas at the end of the nineteenth century, she was a lifelong advocate of liberal social politics, and worked as a journalist on the American home-front during the First World War; she barely survived the influenza epidemic of 1918; moved to Greenwich village during its heyday as a center of radical politics and bohemian artists; lived in Mexico during and after its failed revolution; was in Europe during the rise of Nazism; and returned to the US during the Cold War and rabid McCarthyism.

      Trade Review
      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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