Pale Horse Pale Rider Author:Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider — Old Mortality — Noon Wine — Katherine Anne Porter is regarded as one of the most distinguished writers in the world today. Her style is a rate combination of sublety 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 P... more »ale Horse, Pale Rider she explores the chaotic individualism experienced by those who cope with - adn today outlive - their greatest crises. Miranda, the heroine of the first and last stories, survives the ghosts of a poignant bur unreal childhood, the Great War, and a flu epidemic that claims her lover - to 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 release in a final and tragic act.« less