Zero-Sum

''Oates''s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll''s'' ROSE TREMAIN ''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 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. ''Alluringly dark and spiky'' NEW STATESMAN '' Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird'' A. K. BLAKEMORE ''Dark, unsettling stories ... There''s a disquieting violence simmering ... a shrill alarm of disquiet'' DAILY MAIL ''Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist'' INDEPENDENT ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joyce Carol Oates
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9780008609801
• ISBN: 978-0-00-860980-1
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; 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