The Internet Book Database of Fiction

#	Date	Publisher	Binding	Cover
1	1986-00-00	Dutton

Blurb:: This new collection of stories from Joyce Carol Oates is gathered from her work of the past two years. The eighteen stories in Raven"s Wing -- some of novella length, some short explosive bursts of revelation, all unmistakably Oatesian -- maintain the extraordinary standard Joyce Carol Oates has set for herself throughout a quarter of a century. She continues here to explore ever more deeply the mysteries and varieties of American experience. Ms. Oates"s gift for entering the consciousness of her characters has never been more transcendent. She writes of them with an intensity of feeling and an authenticity of detail that compel a new recognition: their stories, so furiously theirs, blaze up out of their ordinary existence. Perhaps the boldest of Oates"s sorties into new territory is "Golden Gloves," the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage alike fall tragically short of expectations. But singling out any one Oates story does an injustice to the others that appear alongside it. Deeper, darker, richer, it is the totality of Raven"s Wing that in the end is unforgettable.