Collected stories and other writings
Main Author: | Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. |
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Other Authors: | Unrue, Darlene Harbour. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York, NY : [New York, N.Y.] :
Library of America ; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam,
c2008.
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Series: |
Library of America ;
186 |
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Physical Description: |
xii, 1093 p. ; 21 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781598530292 1598530291 |
Author Notes: |
Her one and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools (1962), 20 years in the writing, "is the story of a voyage... . A novel of character rather than of action, it has as its main purpose a study of the German ethos shortly before Hitler's coming to power in Germany... ."Ship of Fools' is also a human comedy and a moral allegory" (New Yorker). To some critics, the book was a disappointment, but all recognized its importance and it appeared on the bestseller list for 28 weeks in 1962. "In my view," wrote Robert Penn Warren in a tribute published in Saturday Review after Porter's death in 1980, "the final importance of Katherine Anne Porter is not merely that she has written a number of fictions which have enlarged and deepened the nature of the story, both short and long, in our time, but that she has created an oeuvre---a body of work including fiction, essays, letters, and journals---that bears the stamp of a personality, distinctive, delicately perceptive, keenly aware of the depth and darkness of human experience, delighted by the beauty of the world and the triumphs of human kindness and warmth, and thoroughly committed to a quest for meaning in the midst of the ironic complexities of man's lot." Much of the nonfictional part of that body of work was gathered into The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. (Bowker Author Biography) |