Mudwoman
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
| Main Author: | Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- |
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| Other Authors: | Ericksen, Susan. |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Westminster, Md. :
Books on Tape,
p2012.
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| Edition: | Library ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons. |
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| Item Description: |
Title from web. Unabridged. Compact discs. Duration: 19:29:00. |
| Physical Description: |
16 sound discs (ca. 73 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9780307987624 : 0307987620 : |
| Author Notes: |
She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) |