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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827055403321

Autore

Porter Katherine Anne <1890-1980.>

Titolo

Selected letters of Katherine Anne Porter [[electronic resource] ] : chronicles of a modern woman / / edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2012

ISBN

1-62103-044-X

1-283-57198-6

9786613884435

1-61703-621-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

UnrueDarlene Harbour

Disciplina

813/.52

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Editor's note -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Recipients -- 1916-1929 -- 1930-1939 -- 1940-1949 -- 1950-1959 -- 1960-1969 -- 1970- 1979.

Sommario/riassunto

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