Mudwoman

<p>Oates is just a fearless writer...with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.<br />--<em>Los Angeles Times<br /></em> <br />[An] extraordinarily intense racking and resonant novel.<br />--<em>Booklist </em>(starred review)</p><p>One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows up her searing <em>New York Times</em> bestselling memoir <em>A Widow's Story</em> with an extraordinary new work of fiction. <em>Mudwoman</em> 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 <em>Rebecca</em> and the classic ghost story <em>The Turn of the Screw</em> by Henry James Oates's <em>Mudwoman</em> 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 <em>The Falls</em> <em>The Gravedigger's Daughter</em> and <em>We Were the Mulvaneys</em>.<br /></p>