Pale Horse Pale Rider Author:Katherine Anne Porter In the three beautiful short novels that comprise this book, Porter explores the chaotic individualism 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 flu epidemic that claims her lover- to ... more »spend her days with a heightened sense of jeopardy. In NOON WINE, Farmer Thompson, though legally acquitted of the murder he commits, can find no justification for his crime and seeks relese in a final and tragic act.« less