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...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth...
...beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...airy decor of the law office cried welcome to the shyest member of the accident-prone public, recalls Oklahoma City Lawyer Byrne A. Bow man. "An older woman greeted me with all the kindliness and warmth of an Irish policeman's mother." On the walls were about 60 framed photographs of checks for large amounts. They represented awards in damage suits and clearly implied that "there is nothing like money." On the waiting-room table was "a poop-sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts...
...perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight of her stories will endure like diamonds...