Raven's Wing [Import] [Hardcover]

Joyce Carol Oates (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape (October 15, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224024655
• ISBN-13: 978-0224024655
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Genius At Work, August 18, 2005

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This review is from: Raven's Wing (Hardcover)

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.