Raven's Wing is a collection of short fiction 18 works by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1986.[1][2]

Raven’s Wing
First edition
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
LanguageEnglish
PublisherE. P. Dutton
Publication date
1986
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages305
ISBN9780525244462

The title story "Raven’s Wing" was included in The Best American Short Stories (1986)[3] "The Seasons" was reprinted in Prize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards.[4]

Stories

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Those stories first appearing in literary journals are indicated.[5][6]

Reception

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Critic Greg Johnson considers the stories in Raven's Wing—in which Oates returns to settings and themes similar to the fictional "Eden County" she created in her volume By the North Gate (1963)—to exemplify "her most impressive recent work."[7]

Literary critic Jack Matthews in The New York Times praises "the rich inventiveness conveyed in a plain style" in which the characters in the work take precedent over the author. Rejecting "fashionable ironies" Oates presents the tales of the working-class of semi-rural New York state in which "pent-up wrath of those who are inarticulate and self-deluded. And yet, in spite of their human defects, they are created with an urgency that signifies that they matter; and because of this urgency, they matter to the reader as well."[8]

References

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  1. ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 218-221: Selected Bibliography, Primary Works
  2. ^ Lercangee, 1986 pp. 7-47
  3. ^ See annotated p. 35
  4. ^ Lercangee, 1986 p.36
  5. ^ Lercangee, 1986 pp. 7-47 See Short Stories and Tales
  6. ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 218-221: Selected Bibliography, Primary Works
  7. ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 95
  8. ^ Matthew, 1986

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