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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter: Including: Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; The Leaning Tower & Four Additional Stories
by Porter, Katherine Anne
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- Hardcover
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Maysville, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. 495 pp. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York (1965). First Edition thus. Book Club edition. Early printing. Bright, clean, square, unmarked copy appears mostly unread. Straight and sharp cloth boards and corners. Some minor rubbing of corners and spine ends. DJ has six small closed tears, and some small chipping mostly at spine ends. Near Fine/Very Good+ to Near Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.
Synopsis
Katherine Anne Porter born as Callie Russell Porter in Indian Creek, Texas, was the fourth of five children of Harrison Boone Porter and Alice Porter. Her family tree can be traced back to American frontiersman Daniel Boone. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Porter’s novel, The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter won the National Book Award in 1966. The stories are mainly set in Texas, Mexico, Greenwich Village, Berlin and the Old South. In "The Cracked Looking Glass," Rosaleen's dream and stories collide with the mundane reality of life on a remote Connecticut farm. For 9-year-old Miranda, "The Grave," is her grandfather's empty one, now just a hole in the ground. And in yet another of her centerpieces is the tale of a spell cast by a mean-spirited New Orleans house Madam and related by a maid to her new employer in "Magic.” Porter writes with honest intelligence and with prose that is captivating and elegant.
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- BookRanger
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- Seller's Inventory #
- BR-0718-924
- Title
- The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Sewn binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked. Book appears to be mostly unread.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition; Early Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, & World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction. Drama.
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