Zero-Sum

Zero-Sum

EnglishPaperback / softback
Oates, Joyce Carol
HarperCollins Publishers
EAN: 9780008609801
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‘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

EAN 9780008609801
ISBN 0008609802
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date July 18, 2024
Pages 272
Language English
Dimensions 198 x 129 x 20
Country United Kingdom
Authors Oates, Joyce Carol

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