Pale Horse Pale Rider Author:Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter is regarded as one of the most distinguished writers in the world today. Her style is a rare combination of subtlety and insight; her concern is "human nature, the fatalities of life and the perils of human relationships." In the three beautiful short novels that comprise Pale Horse, Pale Rider she explores the chaotic in... more »dividualism experienced by those who cope with--and today outlive--their greatest crises. Miranda, the heroine of the first and last stories, survives the ghosts of a poignant but unreal childhood, the Great WAr, and a glu epidemic that claims her lover--to spend her days with a heightened sense of jeopardy. In Noon Wine, Farmer Thompson, though legally acqauitted of the murder he commits, can find no justification for his crime and seeks release in a final and tragic act.« less