Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.
A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as "mother." In the collection's longest story,a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide.
In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time,Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession,thwarted idealism,and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning,Zero-Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008609764Number of pages: 272Weight: 460 gDimensions: 240 x 159 x 27 mm
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'Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied,breathless,weird.'- A. K. Blakemore,author of The Manningtree Witches
'A genuine,sharp chronicler of our times,with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic.'- Gillian Flynn,author of Gone Girl
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