The title character of one story by this author spots her husband fooling around with another woman near a beehive, but is protected from the gendarmes by the other villagers after she repeatedly stabs her rival to death through the neck. This author created a character who laughs with her lover about the fact that army sapping parties have a life expectancy of nine minute
The title character of one story by this author spots her husband fooling around with another woman near a beehive, but is protected from the gendarmes by the other villagers after she repeatedly stabs her rival to death through the neck. This author created a character who laughs with her lover about the fact that army sapping parties have a life expectancy of nine minutes, shortly before she is harassed by a vaudevillian to whom she'd given bad a review. One story by her ends with a dream in which a man cries: "Murderer! [...] Cannibal!" as a woman eats the (*) blossoms off of a tree. This author of "Maria Concepcion" wrote a novella in which Adam Barclay dies from the influenza epidemic that infects Miranda, and a story in which Laura muses about euthanizing Eugenio while the Mexican revolutionary Braggioni serenades her. For 10 points, name this Southern writer of "Flowering Judas" and Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
The title character of one story by this author spots her husband fooling around with another woman near a beehive, but is protected from the gendarmes by the other villagers after she repeatedly stabs her rival to death through the neck.
Katherine Anne Porter