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 An
ne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winni
ng short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies i
n a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fe
ars for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of trage
dy 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 an
d precise.
