The Collection Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

🔖 "Every story I ever finished and published is here," writes Katherine Anne Porter of a collection which spans over four decades of literary achievement without parallel in American letters. With the appearance of her first stories, Katherine Anne Porter was hailed as a master; her genius seemed to have been born full-grown on the printed page. Yet even rarer has been her subsequent career, a marvel of sustained quality. Her stories range from revolutionary Mexico to pre-Nazi Berlin; from rural Texas to mill-town New England to bohemian New York; from the fading elegance of a vanished way of life to the acute disasters and displacements of the modern age. All are shaped by perhaps the purest prose style of our times, and by a vision compassionate yet merciless in its hard-edged clarity..."