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UNINA9910827055403321 |
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Porter Katherine Anne <1890-1980.> |
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Titolo |
Selected letters of Katherine Anne Porter [[electronic resource] ] : chronicles of a modern woman / / edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
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1-62103-044-X |
1-283-57198-6 |
9786613884435 |
1-61703-621-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (431 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, American - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Editor's note -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Recipients -- 1916-1929 -- 1930-1939 -- 1940-1949 -- 1950-1959 -- 1960-1969 -- 1970- 1979. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home attendant in Maryland. Different from any previous selection, this body of letters does not omit Porter's frank criticism of fellow writers and spans her entire life. Within that circumscription is the chronicle of Porter, a twentieth-cent |
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