Contains three short novels, -- Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of...

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PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER

Contains three short novels, -- Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine, Texas and a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota and of the tragedy that ended it all; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and death, set at the time of the flu epidemic. Stories which add new laurels to those Miss Porter has already acquired as one of the great stylists of today, in the Katharine Mansfield school. Simplicity, beauty, clarity, distinction and a sense of drama implicit in character and circumstance, mark her work.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1939

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