Mudwoman: A Novel

€œOates is just a fearless writer€¦with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.€
€"Los Angeles Times
 
€œ[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.