"Flowering Judas" is disconcerting from the first sentence. She drops right you into the middle of it running, and once you've figured out what's going on you see what strangers all the characters are to themselves and each other, everyone wanting the wrong things. Which makes it about guilt and displaced desire, I guess. It's a house of mirrors of a story, weird surfaces to everything. Really good.
about 1 year agoEveryone's Notes
lisapeet
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Dipped into this the other morning because it was too rainy to go running. J was talking about how perfectly pared-down "The Rope" is, so I had to see for myself. And yes, it is lean and mean. I want to read more of these - something about her sensibility appeals.
about 1 year ago