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| Title | : | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| Author | : | Katherine Anne Porter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 495 pages |
| Published | : | September 19th 1979 by Mariner Books (first published 1965) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics |
Katherine Anne Porter
Paperback | Pages: 495 pages Rating: 3.98 | 5890 Users | 164 Reviews
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Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter's reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers rest chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume brings together the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.Point Books Conducive To The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
| Original Title: | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| ISBN: | 0156188767 (ISBN13: 9780156188760) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1966), National Book Award for Fiction (1966) |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 5890 Users | 164 ReviewsJudgment Based On Books The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Whenever my sweetheart says "Carveresque," I think of the author standing at the head of a fully-laden Thanksgiving table, long fork and knife in hand, cutting up a manuscript. Talking about short stories the other evening and he suggested Porter's "Rope" as a portrait of a relationship pared down with a super sharp scalpel, and he wasn't kidding -- it's down to the bone. I've got this on my desk now, and will be dipping in. These don't seem like the kind of stories to sit down and read straightLife was very hard for the Whipples. It was hard to feed all the hungry mouths, it was hard to keep the children in flannels during the winterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Porter won the Pulitzer in 1965 and the National Book Award in 1966. Once in a while there is a writer whose stories are so relatable that upon reading his or her work I feel like Ive discovered a kindred spirit. Reading this book was that kind of experience for me. Despite that all these stories were written so long ago
I only read a small portion of this book--the section describing Miranda's experience with the influenza epidemic of 1918. From what I have been able to learn there are very few fictional accounts of this terrible event. Porter's description is very touching. It centers around the song "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" sung by Blacks in the South to express feelings about loved ones carried off, one imagines by slave traders. In Porter's story of that title it also refers to those carried off by the
I liked "Holiday" (German peasants and their difficulties but also their joys and heartiness--there's some real good family stuff for me to analyze here) and "The Leaning Tower" (artist in Berlin feels like an outsider, wonders about why/how life is worth living, the smallness of dreams in the vastness of the world and other people--some good traveling to Brazil stuff for me to think about) very much. And also the one about the woman who nearly dies during WWI and has to come back to the land of
I have to admire Katherine Ann Porter. So many of her loves died and rejected her, ran away, and deceived her. Somehow she ended up writing truthfully about it. At least I believe her. Her stories do not seem like acts of judgment, since the lovers' sins are not forgiven or changed. Yes, I believe her, because her final relief was to understand it all in a story. What relief? It is only the comfort and joy between reader and author. If I could step back somewhere and propose to Katherine and win
Whenever my sweetheart says "Carveresque," I think of the author standing at the head of a fully-laden Thanksgiving table, long fork and knife in hand, cutting up a manuscript. Talking about short stories the other evening and he suggested Porter's "Rope" as a portrait of a relationship pared down with a super sharp scalpel, and he wasn't kidding -- it's down to the bone. I've got this on my desk now, and will be dipping in. These don't seem like the kind of stories to sit down and read straight
I'm afraid that Katherine Anne Porter is slowly being forgotten by the American body literary, which is unfortunate because she is witty, observant, and deeply influential. I can't imagine the Just-Like-You-and-Me contemporary American writers without the precedent that Porter set.Her strongest works are the later ones, everything from the stories contained in "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" forward. In particular, "The Leaning Tower" is an unsung wonderment... 30 pages of American-abroad
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