Flowering Judas and Other Stories Author:Katherine Anne Porter A Universe of Character, Action, and Emotion — An American girl caught up in the violent cross-currents of foreign politics, passion, and revolution... A dissolute expatriate journalist working out his plan of vengeance upon his puritanical wife... A young woman in Manhattan fighting for survival as a human being... The explosive tensions between... more » a Russian film crew and an American entrepreneur on a feudal ranch in Mexico... A Mexican peasant woman who lives, loves, and kills with the terrible inexorability of a primeval force of nature...
Here are twelve stories by a great writer--a collection that represents some of the most enduring fiction of the century.« less