Zero-sum : stories
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-2023
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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.
Main title:
Zero-sum : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.
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Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2023.London : 4th Estate, 2023.
Collation:
251 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780008609764 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2796842