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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Audiobook

By: Katherine Anne Porter
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Four of the exceptional short stories that won Katherine Anne Porter both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In The Cracked Looking Glass, Rosaleen's dream and stories collide with the gray reality of life on a remote Connecticut farm. For 9-year-old Miranda, The Grave, is her grandfather's empty one, now just a hole in the ground. But the rabbit her brother shoots reveals the mystery of death...and life. The tale of a spell cast by a mean-spirited New Orleans fancy house Madam is related by a maid to her new employer in Magic. In Flowering Judas, a young foreign woman aiding a revolutionary group in Mexico finds denial no match for her growing sense of moral responsibility.

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"So why are short stories so universally depressing? Why no uplift? I had to skip a few of these, I admit it. They are indeed very beautifully written. I think she got the national book award for these but I'm not sure. Well worth reading. "

— Claire (4 out of 5 stars)

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  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966. I really enjoyed some of the stories in the collection, but others were difficult to read and follow. "

    — Steven, 9/11/2010
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    " The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (published 1930) is the short story I most admire. "

    — Robyn, 3/24/2010
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    " I will never even pretend to be a writer after reading "Holiday." "

    — Amy, 1/10/2010
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    " Read this one in an American Lit. class at USU. "

    — Karin, 9/5/2009
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    " I love how this woman writes! "

    — Christel, 7/31/2009
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    " A great short story writer. Some people get "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" in high school, but her stories about the Mexican revolution are probably my favorite. "

    — Matt, 7/10/2009
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    " What an amazing writer - and so ahead of her time. From 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider' to 'Maria Concepcion' to 'Holiday' to 'The Grave', the suck-you-in storytelling and dead-on insight into human nature are so impressive. Highly recommend. "

    — Alison, 11/13/2008
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    " Some genius stories, some not, but when the stories are good, they are phoenomenal. (sp!) "

    — Maritess, 11/11/2008

About Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She pulled herself up from a life of hardship, dislocation, and severe loss in rural Texas to become a major American author and one of the most compelling literary figures of the twentieth century. Her first and only novel, Ship of Fools, was published in 1962 and became the bestselling novel in America that year, bringing her national literary fame. In 1967 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction.