"Being able to tell a story with a modicum of words is an absolute talent that not every book-length author possesses."
Many people refuse to read short fiction, but what they don’t understand is that the important part is the fiction, not the length. Being able to tell a story with a modicum of words is an absolute talent that not every book-length author possesses, but Porter loosely fictionalized a gut-wrenching account of her own struggle with the Spanish Flu in the eponymous story.
I remember reading this collection in college and being shocked that this cataclysmic event that killed millions of people happened and I hadn’t until that moment really learned about the pandemic. Of course, there are echoes to what we are going through today, and when I started writing my own pandemic novel, I went back to Pale Horse, Pale Rider for inspiration.
Selected by our Early Summer 2021 Guest Editor Karin Slaughter
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 fiance on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas.
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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 fiance on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider features in the following genres: General Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads, Fiction, Fiction: special features
Paperback, Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider was written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Pale Horse, Pale Rider has 362 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
