Mudwoman
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007481811 (0007481810)
Publish date: August 1st 2012
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Pages no: 428
Edition language: English
This is an engrossing but unsettling psychological drama about an accomplished academic who begins to unravel after long-repressed memories from early childhood engulf her. Oates blends gothic horror with behind-the-scenes politics in the rarified world of an ivy league university. That she can so e...
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