Pale Horse, Pale Rider

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.

• Author
• Katherine Anne Porter

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 208

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780151707553

• Settings
• Denver, Colorado

• Genres
• fiction, classics, literature, american, novels

• Release date
• 1990