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Zero-Sum

By (author) Joyce Carol Oates

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â€˜Oatesâ€™s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carrollâ€™sâ€™ Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of Americaâ€™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 â€œmother.â€ In the collectionâ€™s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with â€œdraftsâ€ 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 Oatesâ€™s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. 'A master storyteller' The Times â€˜Feminist horror runs through Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s latest collection â€¦ Electricâ€™ New York Times â€˜Alluringly dark and spikyâ€™ New Statesman â€˜Zero-Sum is brilliant â€“ bloodied, breathless, weirdâ€™ A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches â€˜Dark, unsettling stories â€¦ Thereâ€™s a disquieting violence simmering â€¦ a shrill alarm of disquietâ€™ Daily Mail â€˜Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologistâ€™ Independent

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