The Leaning Tower and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic
- ISBN-10
- 1598533363
- ISBN-13
- 9781598533361
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-25
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Author
- Katherine Anne Porter
Description
Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the nine gems in this 1944 collection, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.”
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