Books : Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Signet Classical Books)
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by: Katherine Anne Porter
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780451000439
Format: Import
ISBN: 0451000439
Label: New American Library
Manufacturer: New American Library
Number Of Pages: 176
Publisher: New American Library
Studio: New American Library
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Rating:  - "To be read, and remembered."
Pale Horse, Pale Rider is the collection of Katherine Anne Porter's three short novels that was first published in 1939, offering three pieces of fiction that very much helped to make and secure Porter's reputation as one of this country's best short fiction writers. Calling these pieces "short novels" may be a bit of a stretch for most readers, however, and it may be more appropriate to look at them as "long short stories." After all, the book is only 150 pages in length.
Porter herself ... Read More
Rating:  - Uncritcally Accepted Myth Is A Heavy Burden
In PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, Katherine Anne Porter creates a world of two universes; one contains the semi-autobiographical life of Porter's alter-ego, Miranda, who is seen first as a very young girl in the first novella, "Old Mortality," then later as an adult woman in the third entrant, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider." The third novella is "Noon Wine," which is linked to the other two in its focus on a protagonist whose choice of life is severely restricted by the need to conform to society's restrictions. ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful and sad
I was unfamiliar with Katherine Anne Porter before reading this book and am now glad I picked it up. Porter has an amazing way with words and with characterization. With only a few sentences you feel as if you know the people in her stories. This book contains 3 short novels of which I think Pale Horse, Pale Rider is the best. Miranda is a young woman working at a newspaper during the last year of the first world war and of the tragic flu epidemic which killed millions. She goes from show to show every ... Read More
Rating: - Three gems in a jewel box
Katherine Anne Porter writes like a lapidary; each sentence is like a polished jewel, every word is perfect. "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" is a compilation of three novellas: "Old Mortality", seen through the eyes of Maria and Miranda Rhea, two children home for the weekend from their stultifying boarding school, is the tale of the family black sheep, a beautiful young cousin of easy virtue who continues to fascinate and frustrate her extended family long after her early death; "Noon Wine" shows us a Texas ... Read More
Rating: - Short fiction the way it should be.
Katherine Anne Porter displays the human experience with turns of phrase that catch your breath. The awkward spinster cousin blooms "like a dry little plant set out in a gentle rain" when her critical mother leaves the room. A woman delirious with influenza falls into a sleep "that was not sleep but clear evening light in a small green wood..."
I thought Flannery O'Connor had ruined all other southern short fiction writers for me, but Porter meets O'Connor's deft character portraits, with their ... Read More
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