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Title:The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Author:Katherine Anne Porter
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 495 pages
Published:September 19th 1979 by Mariner Books (first published 1965)
Categories:Short Stories. Fiction. Classics
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Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter's reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers rest chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume brings together the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

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Original Title: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN: 0156188767 (ISBN13: 9780156188760)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1966), National Book Award for Fiction (1966)

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I've been carrying around The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter for almost four decades without reading them, just one of the books I kept passing over as I took them out of shipping boxes in state after state, country after country. Recently I read a memoir by Reynolds Price in which he said that she had written stories of the highest order, equal to Chekhov, Faulkner, Joyce and others. So I went looking for her collected stories in this new house of ours and found them right where I



Somehow, though I was a literature major, I had never read more than a couple of Porter's stories before something recently triggered my decision to check this collection out of the library. Huge thanks to that something, for I enjoyed the reading thoroughly.Porter has a poet's ability to describe a gesture, a way of moving, or a scene with similes that make your jaw drop, so precise & unexpected & moving they are. "She watched not the boy, but his shadow, fallen like a dark garment

God was this a long collection...Ok, so, Porter's writing is of the highest quality and structure. Her use of allusion, developing themes, and symbolism was good albeit a bit ordinary now. For the times these stories were written (between 1920-1950 predominantly) these all would have fit wonderfully in the spectrum of other prize winners. Yet this won in 1966 and even for that time these seem old fashioned for a nation so abruptly changing in social strides as well as artistically. I found

Really impressed. I don't think I would have picked this up if I hadn't started on the questionable quest of reading all the Pulitzer winners for fiction. Love the writing.

I had to read this short story for one of my creative writing courses, but it does not really speak to me. Granny is thinking way too much about trivial things while she is on the verge of dying. All will be well, Granny, you can go now.Perhaps Katherine Anne Porter's other stories are more to my liking, perhaps I'll read something else written by her in the future.

I have to admire Katherine Ann Porter. So many of her loves died and rejected her, ran away, and deceived her. Somehow she ended up writing truthfully about it. At least I believe her. Her stories do not seem like acts of judgment, since the lovers' sins are not forgiven or changed. Yes, I believe her, because her final relief was to understand it all in a story. What relief? It is only the comfort and joy between reader and author. If I could step back somewhere and propose to Katherine and win