by Joyce Carol Oates · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420414577
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A powerful novel by Joyce Carol Oates that explores the life of Meredith Neukirchen, the first woman to be appointed president of a prestigious Ivy League university. Meredith, a woman dedicated to her career and with strong moral convictions, faces a political crisis and a secret love affair that threaten her leadership. As her life crumbles, she must confront her past as the "mud girl" abandoned on the banks of the Black Snake River. Can she escape the dangers that haunt her present, when the intelligence and idealism that freed her in the past now endanger her?
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
