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Three short novels that lack for nothing

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels by Katherine Anne Porter

July 20, 2024 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr16bingo Horses  This collection of three novellas- “Old Mortality, “Noon Wine” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”- was originally published in 1939. Each story involves characters whose illusions — about themselves and/or their families — are eventually stripped away, forcing them to face hard realities. Some are not up to it while others find the strength to move onward.  “Old Mortality” is divided into three parts and focuses on the point of view of a girl named Miranda. She and her older sister Maria are part […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, horses, Katherine Anne Porter, Noon Wine, novella, Old Mortality, Pale Horse Pale Rider

ElCicco's CBR16 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, horses, Katherine Anne Porter, Noon Wine, novella, Old Mortality, Pale Horse Pale Rider ·
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Flowering Judas and Other Stories – Katherine Anne Porter (1935)

Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

February 16, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the second time I’ve read this collection, and for a few of the stories like “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” and “Flowering Judas” half a dozen or more. Katherine Anne Porter has a strange place in American literature, partly because of her placement in time–she was born around the turn of the century–and partly because she only wrote the one novel. She’s an absolute force in terms of the short stories, which predate figures writing somewhat similar stories like O’Connor (to a small […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: flowering judas, Katherine Anne Porter

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:65 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: flowering judas, Katherine Anne Porter ·
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