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.
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Product code: 9780008609764
| ISBN |
9780008609764 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H240xW159xS27 |
| On Sale Date |
20/07/2023 |
| No. Of Pages |
272 |
| Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers |