"THE NEVER-ENDING WRONG" is essentially Katherine Anne Porter's account of the experiences she had during the 1920s working with a group protesting the conviction of the shoemaker Nicola Sacco and the fishmonger Bartolomeo Vanzetti (both by political conviction, anarchists) on the charge of murder b...
bookshelves: spring-2014, e-book, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, those-autumn-years, roman-catholic, lifestyles-deathstyles Read on May 15, 2014 "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall": read hereOpening: She flicked her wrist neatly out of Doctor Harry’s pudgy careful fingers and pulled the sheet ...
I read this book for the first time 45 years ago at 16. A second reading only confirmed at as a classic, working on so many different levels.
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
This was such a moving read, and I'm ashamed to admit that I remember very little of it. Porter's 'Ship of Fools' was a fascinating read and a model example of the long-term pet project of a gifted writer - for good or ill. In here I remember extended meditations on death, curious letters from an ...
Rating: 4.25* of fiveThe Book Description: In her now-famous introduction to this first collection by a then-unknown young writer from Mississippi named Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that "there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that,...
A novel that took her over twenty years to write, 'Ship of Fools' is a large sprawling thing with many characters (you will be grateful for the passenger manifest at the beginning) and has a grand ambition to illustrate the world in the early 1930s in the form of a group of people on an ocean liner ...
An excellent collection of novellas linked together by the theme of untimely death.
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