Katherine Anne Porter, Noon Wine

Matt Wanat (Ohio University)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1937

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

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Katherine Anne Porter’s 1937 story “Noon Wine” was published with “Old Mortality” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” in the collection

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

in 1939. In the summer of 1939, Wallace Stegner wrote for

Virginia Quarterly Review

that “Noon Wine” was “the best of the three, though not perfectly proportioned”, adding that “Noon Wine” “communicates; it has voltage” (30). The “conductivity” of “Noon Wine”, as Stegner describes it, has attracted many readers since, and the short work has been twice adapted to television, most recently by Michael Fields in 1985 and more famously by Sam Peckinpah for

ABC Stage 67

in 1966.

“Noon Wine” covers nine years in the lives of the Thompsons, a family of small Texas farmers whose dairy prospers after Mr.

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Citation: Wanat, Matt. "Noon Wine". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 November 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3236, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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