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Hermione Lee: Katherine Anne Porter, 12 February 2009
Collected Stories and Other Writings
by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene HarbourUnrue.
Library of America, 1039 pp., $40, October 2008,978 1 59853 029 2 Show More
by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene HarbourUnrue.
Library of America, 1039 pp., $40, October 2008,
“... It is 1912, and Miranda Gay, one of Katherine Anne Porter’s versions of her younger self, is travelling to a family reunion in South Texas, in the country between Austin and San Antonio. She has made a rash early marriage and alienated herself from her family. She talks to an elderly woman cousin on the train, who bursts out: ‘Ah, the family … the whole hideous institution should be wiped from the face of the earth ... ”
