Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook

Missing Mom: A Novel

By Joyce Carol Oates
Read by Anna Fields

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 3 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9780792737674

  • ISBN: 9780792738381

  • ISBN: 9781602528505

Runtime: 14.39 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A 2005 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

"This is the story of missing my mother. One day, in a way unique to you, it will be your story, too." So begins Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates' personal and candid novel.

Nikki Eaton, a single, thiry-one-year-old, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting young woman, never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet following the unexpected loss of her mother, her identity is transformed during the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that brings sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“With Missing Mom, Oates turns her considerable force on the conundrum of the absence of an ordinary woman, Gwen Eaton, a fifty-six-year-old housewife in Mount Ephraim, N.Y.…and how that absence ripples through the lives around her…Oates’ grip on crime, violence, and the long-buried is sure, but Missing Mom is actually more disturbing in its relentless, dead-on accretion of small-time, small-town, middle-class details. Oates piles them on with pitiless virtuosity.” —New York Times Book Review
“Chronicling Nikki’s year following Gwen’s death, the novel includes some wonderfully precise emotional observations.” —Publishers Weekly
“Anna Fields provides a valiant, emotional reading” —AudioFile
“This time around, Oates, one of America’s greatest writers, has not written one of her ‘broad views’ into American society but rather one of her intimate portraits of family relationships. It may not make a big splash, but loyal fans will want it. Recommended for larger popular fiction collections.” —Library Journal
“[In this] hypnotic tale of shock and mourning… a violent tragedy hits like a boulder hurled into a pond. Oates tracks every ripple in her empathic drama as she meticulously charts the daunting and transforming process of missing a lost loved one…Oates is at once erotic and scientific in her uncanny detailing of ordinary things experienced under extraordinary circumstances…This almost hallucinatory precision, contrasted with high-voltage encounters with law officials and stricken neighbors and relatives, makes for a profoundly involving and haunting explication of grief, followed, finally, by a renewed embrace of life.” —Booklist

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Author

Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to “a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.”

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Details

Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 14.39
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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