3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates.
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories.
Meredith ‘M.R.’ Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitment to her career and moral fervor are all-consuming. But with an emergent political crisis and a prolonged secret love affair, M.R. has to confront challenges to her professional leadership which test her in ways she could not have expected. The fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life in her hometown now threaten to undo her.
When she makes a trip upstate, M.R. Neukirchen is thrust into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. A powerful exploration of the enduring claims of the past, Mudwoman is at once a psychic ghost story and the heartbreaking portrait of an individual who breaks - but finds a way to heal herself.
© 2012 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007496778
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 16 augusti 2012
3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates.
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories.
Meredith ‘M.R.’ Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitment to her career and moral fervor are all-consuming. But with an emergent political crisis and a prolonged secret love affair, M.R. has to confront challenges to her professional leadership which test her in ways she could not have expected. The fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life in her hometown now threaten to undo her.
When she makes a trip upstate, M.R. Neukirchen is thrust into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. A powerful exploration of the enduring claims of the past, Mudwoman is at once a psychic ghost story and the heartbreaking portrait of an individual who breaks - but finds a way to heal herself.
© 2012 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007496778
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 16 augusti 2012
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5 feb. 2014
Joyce carol Oates är skriver som vanligt fantastiskt! Håller med- när blir det Nobelpris?
Mimmona
22 feb. 2018
Ännu en lysande roman av J C Oates! Bara titeln: Mudwoman gör att man blir frestad av att ge sig i kast med boken. Den här författarens personporträtt - suveräna! Berättelsen, likaså! Tips: Läs/lyssna gärna också på Mannen utan skugga. Enastående! Fängslande!
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