Katherine Anne Porter SIGNED Pale Horse Pale Rider 1st Ed Later PR HC PULITZER
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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels by Katherine Anne Porter Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1939. Signed & Inscribed by author Katherine Anne Porter on ffep, dated 1953. Later Printing of First edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket in archival mylar wrapper. Tight binding, solid spine, edge wear to dj, crease to pages from half-title to page 8, clean unmarked text. 8vo, 264 pages. Porter received the first annual gold medal for literature in 1940 from the Society of Libraries of New York University for this collection of novels. Porter was a journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist, and in 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, as well as receiving five nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This seminal collection showcases Porter's mastery of the short novel form, featuring three of her most acclaimed works: "Old Mortality," "Noon Wine," and the title story "Pale Horse, Pale Rider." The eponymous tale, set during the 1918 influenza epidemic, draws from Porter's own near-death experience with the disease. It follows Miranda Gay, a newspaper woman, through fever dreams and the stark reality of a world ravaged by war and pandemic. Porter's precise prose and psychological insight illuminate themes of mortality, memory,
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Year: 1939
- Condition: Very Good
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