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“Every story I ever finished and published is here,” writes Katherine Anne Porter of a collection which spans over four decades of literary achievement without parallel in American letters. With the appearance of her first stories, Katherine Anne Porter was hailed as a master; her genius seemed to have been born full-grown on the printed page. Yet even rarer has been her subsequent career, a marvel of sustained quality. Her stories range from revolutionary Mexico to pre-Nazi Berlin; from rural Texas to mill-town New England to bohemian New York; from the fading elegance of a vanished way of life to the acute disasters and displacements of the modern age. All are shaped by perhaps the purest prose style of our times, and by a vision compassionate yet merciless in its hard-edged clarity.
Together for the first time in paperback, these extraordinary stories combine to give vivid proof to the praise of V. S. Prichett: “Miss Porter’s singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life… her power to make a landscape, a room, a group of people come alive…. She is an important writer because she solves the essential problem: how to satisfy exhaustively in writing briefly.”
Published 1970.
Paperback, 495 pages, good condition with the exception of name inside cover.
