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Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Ea-i-102.

Ea-i-102.

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

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Sewn binding. Vinyl over boards. 224 p. HBJ Modern Classic. Audience:

Sewn binding. Vinyl over boards. 224 p. HBJ Modern Classic. Audience: General. 16580 16580--Orig publ in 1936, 1937 and 1939. A collection of three short novels by Katherine Anne Porter. Three short novels collected in one volume. I thought the first-Old Mortality-brought a time and place to life vividly and created an almost voyeuristic feeling-not unlike those opening scenes of Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful. I felt like one of the characters, present though unacknowledged by the narrator. So perfectly realized were these characters that I recognized cousin Eva Parrington pages before Miranda did. She was a tart middle-aged lady that I'd have loved to have spent more time with. The second short novel is the very famous Noon Wine-a tragic family saga that plays out in roughly sixty pages. It had a bit of a Steinbeck feeling to it-farm life, drudgery, menace and a final brutal ending. The titular story is the last in this collection. It is a love story, and again a tragic tale about the capricious nature of love and life and death. This is another of Miss. Porter's 'Miranda' stories. Set at the close of WWI the drama involves the great influenza epidemic and the horrific toll in human suffering. Does it sound like bleak material? The writing is so rich and evocative that ones remains enthralled from beginning to end. Great artists render sorrow and tragedy palatable, even beautiful. (reader review)

8vo, 208 pp.

8vo, 208 pp.