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A collection of tales features "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza," "Suicide Watch," "Bad Habits," and "Valentine, July Heat Wave," in which a man sets out to prepare a gruesome surprise for the wife who is planning to leave him.
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Oates' stories, especially the title story, give me that delicious, frightened feeling while reading...the certain knowledge that this cannot be going any place I want to go...I want to stop reading but I can't stop reading.... Marvelous.