Bibliograph

Mudwoman, Joyce Carol Oates

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Mudwoman, Joyce Carol Oates

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mudwoman

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joyce Carol Oates

Summary

"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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Mud woman

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