Zero-Sum

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. ''This writer is a phenomenon'' Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2023
• EAN: 9780008609771
• ISBN: 978-0-00-860977-1
• No. of pages: 251
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, Short Stories, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Thriller / suspense, Horror & ghost stories, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Psychological thriller, Horror and supernatural fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary