Zero-Sum
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'A master storyteller' THE TIMES
'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of Americaâs 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 âmother.â In the collectionâs longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with âdraftsâ 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 Oatesâs standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.
âAlluringly dark and spikyâ NEW STATESMAN
âZero-Sum is brilliant â bloodied, breathless, weirdâ A. K. BLAKEMORE
âDark, unsettling stories ... Thereâs a disquieting violence simmering ... a shrill alarm of disquietâ DAILY MAIL
âOates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologistâ INDEPENDENT
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Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of Americaâs most highly respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.
