| Edition |
[First American edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 495 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Harvest/HBJ book
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| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Maria Concepcion -- Virgin Violeta -- The martyr -- Magic -- Rope -- He -- Theft -- That tree -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- Flowering Judas -- The cracked looking-glass -- Hacienda -- Old mortality -- Noon wine -- Pale horse, pale rider -- The old order -- The source -- The journey -- The witness -- The circus -- The last leaf -- The fig tree -- The grave -- The downward path to wisdom -- A day's work -- Holiday -- The leaning tower. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 34.0 86377. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
Collected stories |
| ISBN |
0156188767 paperback |
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9780156188760 paperback |
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