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Original Title:	Pale Horse, Pale Rider
ISBN:	0151707553 (ISBN13: 9780151707553)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Denver, Colorado(United States)

Pale Horse, Pale Rider Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages

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Title	:	Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Author	:	Katherine Anne Porter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	June 18th 1990 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. American

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First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction. From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider', where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiancé on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are expressed in prose both brilliant and precise.

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O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory? such soothing words. the afterlife as a just reward - Jesus has taken the sting of death away; the victory that lies beyond the grave - for all those who love Him. but alas, there is no such savior, no such leavening of pain, no embracing of the afterworld in the three novellas that comprise Pale Horse, Pale Rider."Old Mortality"first: death is a mask, a veil, a shadow cast long and dark... it reshapes those it has taken, makes them

Blue was never my color. She sighed with a humorous bitterness. The humor seemed momentary, but the bitterness was a constant state of mind.William Gass's Fifty Literary Pillars, which is a list of the 50 books that influenced him most, contains this book: one of only 4 by female authors (the others were Virginia Woolf, Colette, and Gertrude Stein), so I thought I had to check this out.It's a book of 3 novellas (or long short stories). Immediately I was gripped by the voice in 'Old Mortality':

This is a terrific little book of 3 short stories that chill you to the bone. They all involve illness and death so if you aren't in the mood for this then wait until you are but don't skip it. Porter is a great writer with an easy, haunting style that pulls you in with polite talk with an undercurrent of evil that the Southern writers do so well. For me the best story is Pale Horse, Pale Rider of a young woman, Miranda, who is suffering from the flu in 1918 while dating a boy who is a solider

It may be that there is some great literary value to this book. If there is, I really just don't care.There are some books that are very sad, as if the dog dies heroically at the end, and everyone cries. I have no problem with this. Sometimes we all need a good cry.There are other books where the author goes out of their way to show the reader how horrible the universe can be, as if the dog dies meaninglessly near the beginning of the book, and the characters spend the rest of the book kicking

I was given this book in the early 1970s from my Army buddy Butch Drury, himself in the Ph.D. program in English when he was drafted; he now is in the Hospital Administration department at Northwestern, but remains a Renaissance Man, but I digress. This wonderful short book by the author of Ship of Fools contains three short novels about change, sadness, tragedy, sometimes hope, and deep character study, about both individuals and the environment theyre in. Her prose is carefully and

O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory? such soothing words. the afterlife as a just reward - Jesus has taken the sting of death away; the victory that lies beyond the grave - for all those who love Him. but alas, there is no such savior, no such leavening of pain, no embracing of the afterworld in the three novellas that comprise Pale Horse, Pale Rider."Old Mortality"first: death is a mask, a veil, a shadow cast long and dark... it reshapes those it has taken, makes them

4,5 stars! i'll be thinking about these stories for a long time to come.