Download Mudwoman AudioBook Free
A riveting book that explores the high price of success in the life of one female - the first feminine president of a lauded ivy group institution - and her carry after her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Times best seller A Widow's Tale. Mudgirl is a child discontinued by her mother in the silty flats of the Dark colored Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by a major accident of fate - or future. After her recovery, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous record behind the hurdle of the middle-class values, apparently sealing it off forever. However the bulwark of today's proves surprisingly vulnerable to the agents of the past. Meredith "M.R." Neukirchen is the first female president associated with an Ivy League college or university. Her dedication to her job and moral fervor on her behalf role are all-consuming. Associated with a secret fan whose feelings on her behalf are teasingly undefined, and concerned with the intensifying crisis of the American political climate as america edges toward warfare with Iraq, M.R. is met with problems to her management that test her in ways she cannot have expected. The brutal idealism and cleverness that sent her from a far more conventional life in her upstate New York hometown now threaten to undo her. A reckless trip upstate thrusts M.R. Neukirchen into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. is convinced she has left out. A robust exploration of the long lasting claims of the past, Mudwoman is at once a psychic ghost storyline and a romantic portrait of a female cracking the goblet ceiling at great personal cost, which explores the strain between youth and adulthood, the true and the thought, and the "public" and "private" in the life of a highly complex contemporary female.
