Mudwoman, Joyce Carol Oates
Mudwoman, Joyce Carol Oates
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Mudwoman

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 19 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/20/2012

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

“Oates is just a fearless writer…with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.”
—Los Angeles Times
 
“[An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel.”
—Booklist (starred review)One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows up her searing, New York Times bestselling memoir, A Widow’s Story, with an extraordinary new work of fiction. Mudwoman is a riveting psychological thriller, taut with dark suspense, that explores the high price of repression in the life of a respected university president teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown. Like Daphne DuMaurier’s gothic masterwork, Rebecca, and the classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, Oates’s Mudwoman is a chilling page-turner that hinges on the power of the imagination and the blurry lines between the real and the invented—and it stands tall among the author’s most powerful and beloved works, including The Falls, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, and We Were the Mulvaneys.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

This is an engrossing but unsettling psychological tale about an accomplished academic who begins to unravel after long-repressed memories from early childhood engulf her. Oates blends gothic horror with behind the scenes politics in the rarified world of an ivy league university. That she can s......more

Goodreads review by Kansas

Una de sus novelas más perturbadoras e inquietantes, quizás incluso más que otras suyas. El personaje de M.R/Meredith (otro personaje dual, con dos caras) tiene unos traumas que afloran de vez en cuando y realmente no sabes, qué es real o imaginación dentro de su cabeza. Y también está la condescende......more

“Credevi di poter scappare in eterno? Credevi di poter fuggire da tutto questo per sempre?” Meredith Ruth Neukirchen, detta M.R., è una filosofa molto apprezzata nell'ambiente accademico. Può vantarsi, inoltre, di essere anche la prima donna rettore di un’università della Ivy League. Una vita costr......more

I got a hold of a rare edition advanced release read. So time to dig in. ***finished*** This novel is darkly disturbing and I love it. As with many Oates novels, it begins slowly and creeps along until you feel as if you are experiencing M.R.'s life. I am in awe of the writer that can make me feel wha......more