Short stories

By Katherine Anne Porter

Subjects: Manners and customs, award:national_book_award=fiction, American Short stories, Fiction, Social life and customs, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, short stories (single author), award:national_book_award=1966

Description: Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.