Description: A collection of three short novels by Katherine Anne Porter.
Brief description: Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned American author of short stories and essays. Best known for her short story collections and the novel Ship of Fools, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal Award for Fiction.
Review Quotes:
"[Porter's] stories rank among the best in American literature." - The Guardian
"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." - New Republic
"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." - New York Review of Books
"Katherine Anne Porter moves in the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James."
- Saturday Review