{"product_id":"pale-horse-pale-rider-isbn-9780151707553","title":"Pale Horse, Pale Rider","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe classic 1939 collection of three short novels, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers evoke such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This sharp collection of three short novels includes “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” Porter's most celebrated story, where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war. Also included is “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas, and “Old Mortality,” a story of discovering family truths and self-discovery. \u003cem\u003ePale Horse, Pale Rider \u003c\/em\u003eunites the finest work from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"[Porter's] stories rank among the best in American literature.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few writers in America or anywhere else have matched [Porter's] powers of deep poetic concentration, her intelligence, her responsiveness to the inner life of her characters, her sharp sense of the pressing forces of history, nationality, and social atmosphere.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Miss Porter’s best stories are so transparent that they disappear as stories, as style, as literature, while leaving the humanity of their pictures wordlessly intact.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Katherine Anne Porter moves in the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889807552741,"sku":"NP9780151707553","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780151707553.jpg?v=1730231945","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pale-horse-pale-rider-isbn-9780151707553","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}