by Katherine Anne Porter · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141195315
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«Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Short Stories» is Katherine Anne Porter's collection of short stories, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (384 pages).
It brings together twelve stories that move from the American Gothic South to revolutionary Mexico. The title story follows a young woman with fever during the flu epidemic, while she fears for her fiancé at war; «Noon Wine» is a tale of tension and scandal on a Texas dairy farm.
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series; selected and introduced by Sarah Churchwell; includes «Old Mortality», «Noon Wine» and «Pale Horse, Pale Rider».
For readers of short fiction and twentieth-century American classics.
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.
