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Raven's Wing (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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“Raven's Wing,” a story in the volume of the same title, first appeared in Esquire and was included in The Best American Short Stories, 1985. It is a brief story, told with simplicity and subtlety and without the violence and passion of much of Oates's other work, presenting a slice-of-life view of a rather ordinary marriage.

Billy is thirty-two years old and has been married to his twenty-four-year-old second wife, Linda, for barely a year. Though Linda is pregnant, Billy feels little passion for or interest in her, and he treats her with indifference and...

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