pale horse pale rider three short novels katherine anne porter

Instead, she starts to feel funny and the next thing she knows, she's in the sick ward with the dead and the dying, watching the randomness of who lives and who doesn't, and not knowing why: God, how I wanted Miranda to bring him up onto the mesa and rip off the buttons of his uniform, one by one, with her teeth. “So do I,” said Miranda “we never did swim together.” “Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?”

“Don't you love being alive?” asked Miranda. She assumes he's a dead man, as most of the men are not returning, so she counts her enchanted days with him as numbered days: Miranda is incredibly modern and snarky, and she has cleverly navigated her way around a male-dominated newspaper office, and she surprises herself by falling in love with a man who has just enlisted with the army and is hoping to see some fighting before the war ends. Well, neither was Miranda (she of the gathering storm), a journalist, who is sick and tired of WWI, the propaganda surrounding an unpopular war and injured American soldiers on the streets.Īnd, what's with all of these sick people lately? What's up with this new, weird influenza thing? In a true moment of irony, you might be amused to learn that I was originally going to read Peter Heller's The Dog Stars for my home state of Colorado (a novel which starts out at a location just minutes from my house), but it's a dystopian story centered around a flu pandemic, and I wasn't in the mood. Worst book to read during a pandemic: Pale Horse, Pale Rider. I've been humored by how many readers on here have cracked open Stephen King's The Stand during this pandemic, but now I know that I've read a worse book during quarantine, and it was by accident.

Pale horse pale rider three short novels katherine anne porter