Raven's Wing

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J. Curley, 1986 - Fiction - 395 pages
In this her boldest, most intense collection yet, Oates probes the violence and passion that lie just behind conventional lives. Setting many of her stories in the New Jersey area where she lives, Joyce Carol Oates "does not waste a word".--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Contents

RAVENS WING
1
THE SEASONS
18
NAIROBI
52
Copyright

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Raven's Wing
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
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About the author (1986)

Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review.

Bibliographic information

TitleRaven's Wing
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
Editionlarge print
PublisherJ. Curley, 1986
ISBN1555043690, 9781555043698
Length395 pages
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