“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 Timesbestselling memoir,A Widow's Story, with an extraordinary new work of fiction.Mudwomanis 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'sMudwomanis a chilling page-turner that hinges on the power of the imagination and the blurry lines between the real and the...