Porter, Katherine Anne (Vol. 1) - Porter, Katherine Anne 1890–
Porter, Katherine Anne 1890–
A Southern American short story writer and novelist, Miss Porter is best known for Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and Ship of Fools. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Ship of Fools suggests many of the qualities of the traditional "solid" novel that has virtually dropped out of sight in recent years. Like the nineteenth-century classics, it comes at life in a straightforward and comprehensive way. There are many characters and they all have the uncomplicated distinctiveness, bordering on caricature, that allows the reader to keep them straight and to know where he is with each of them…. Though she has dispensed with the old-fashioned elaborate plot, she does contrive an almost continual movement of the narrative among the characters which serves much the same purpose as complicated plotting once did: it brings different classes (in this case,...
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