Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186) - Rilegato

Porter, Katherine Anne

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ISBN 10: 1598530291 ISBN 13: 9781598530292

Casa editrice: Library of America, 2008

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A complete volume of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author's short stories includes a selection of definitive essays as gathered from her 1952 collection, The Days Before, as well as additional works from her early and later years. 12,500 first printing.

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In the 1920s and ’30s, Katherine Anne Porter emerged as a classicist among the moderns, a lapidary miniaturist whose every short story was greeted as a thing of timeless perfection. Edmund Wilson called her “a first-rate artist” who wrote “English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary American fiction.” Her mastery of theme and gift for characterization were hers alone among the storywriters; even her shortest works were imbued with a richness of design, incident, and experience seldom found outside long novels. Her ambition and her range of emotion and effect—from cold realism to measureless compassion, from the plainspoken to the lyrical—were unequaled in her time and have had few successors. She was, and is forever, an American original.

Darlene Harbour Unrue, volume editor, is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author, most recently, of Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist.

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Book by Porter Katherine Anne

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• Editore: Library of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1598530291
• ISBN 13: 9781598530292
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1100
• Redattore: Unrue Darlene Harbour