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Raven's Wing (Curley Large Print Books)

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This mid-1980's short story anthology shows Oates's talents just as strong at mid-career as ever. In the title story, a playboy finds his luck tied to the rise and fall of a race horse named Raven's Wing. In "Leilia Lee" a bank teller from the east coast escapes to a small southern town after a cruel divorce and in a deed she soon rues, marries the local country squire. She finds herself stuck between her much-older husband and the plots for revenge of the bitter teenage son the man relentlessly persecutes. Some have criticized Oates' short tales as being "situations rather than stories" and valid or not, her situation/stories stick in the memory and compel the reader to finish each and every one. She is a giant in American literature.