Katherine Anne Porter : a life / Joan Givner.
Recounts Katherine Anne Porter's rise from Texas log-cabin poverty to a position as a well-known short story writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, stressing her stamina, wit, and determination.
Item details
- ISBN: 0671432079
- ISBN: 9780671432072
- ISBN: 0671505866
- ISBN: 9780671505868
- Physical Description: 572 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1982.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- The Porter Family History: Legend, Memory, Whimsy, and Applejack -- Born to the Practice of Literature -- Adolescence: The Old Order Changeth -- That Preposterous First Marriage -- The Ungodly Struggle -- Death and Rebirth in Denver -- Greenwich Village and Mexico City: A Very Growing Season -- Getting Ready to be a Writer -- The Foreign Land of Massachusetts -- The Fabulous Year -- Farewell to Mexico -- The German Experience -- Paris, Madrid, Basle, Paris: Once I Followed a Husband All Over Europe -- Paris -- Pennsylvania, New York, Louisiana, Texas -- A House of My Own -- The Love of a Lifetime -- California: A Perpetual Homesickness for Just Anywhere Else on Earth -- Disciples Must Be Very Hard for a Mere Human Being to Endure -- University Teaching: Transmitting Something of Value -- I Am Really Old Now and ... Time Is Running Out -- Ship of Fools: The Last Stretch -- The Aftermath of Ship of Fools: I Was Happier Before -- Two Kinds of Success -- The Rewards of Success -- The Final Chapter. |
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