Literary Fiction · MelancholicEvery story she finished and published, in one volume
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Twenty-six stories by Katherine Anne Porter, including Flowering Judas and Pale Horse, Pale Rider
This collection gathers twenty-six works of fiction from three earlier volumes, Flowering Judas and Other Stories (1935), Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (1939) and The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944), and adds four stories that had not been collected before. Porter said of it: Every story I ever finished and published is here.
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Who
Many different characters across twenty-six works of fiction.
World
Notable stories include Maria Concepcion, Flowering Judas, Noon Wine, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and The Leaning Tower.
What makes it different
It is Porter's complete short fiction in one volume of 495 pages. It won both the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
Feel
Precise and quiet. Each story is complete in itself.
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