Pale Horse, Pale Rider
New Ed edition
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Word Count
51,250 words, Guess
Page Count
205 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7699649M
- ISBN-139780679603030
- ISBN-100679603034
- OCLC Control Number38494697
- Library of Congress Control Number98012008
and 2 more
- Goodreads95380
- LibraryThing65307
Classifications
- LCCPS3531.O752P3 1998
Description
Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's short novels or long stories, as Porter - who didn't hold with the term "novella" - called her pieces. In the masterly "Noon Wine," set on a Texas farm circa 1900, she offers an unforgettable study of evil. According to Reynolds Price the tale "can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything in Tolstoy or Chekhov." Both "Old Mortality" and the title story center on Porter's fictional counterpart, Miranda: a resilient Southern heroine who, as Mary Gordon observed, is in "the precarious position of a woman who must earn her way with no one behind her to break fall."
First Sentence
She was a spirited-looking young woman, with dark curly hair cropped and parted on the side, a short oval face with straight eyebrows, and a large curved mouth.
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