"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
The classic 1939 collection of three short novels, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918.
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The classic 1939 collection of three short novels, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers evoke such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This sharp collection of three short novels includes "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," Porter's most celebrated story, where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war.
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
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider was written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Mariner Books Classics an imprint of HarperCollins
Pale Horse, Pale Rider has 224 pages
