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Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked.
Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel. Her sole novel was Ship of Fools , and she was eth author of a largenumber of acclaimed short stories.
Porter had a long and intersting life - and travelled widely oin literary and political circles - in Mexico, Germany, paris, madrid , basle , Paris and on to Washington in the Kennedy era.