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Zero-Sum

English

By (author): Joyce Carol Oates

Oatess imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carrolls 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 Americas 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 collections 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 Oatess 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 Theres a disquieting violence simmering a shrill alarm of disquiet DAILY MAIL

Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist INDEPENDENT

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Product Details
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008609764

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist critic playwright poet and author of short stories and one of Americas 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.

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