Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting Stories by one of America\'s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde 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.
Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates\'s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life..
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.
In the collection\'s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with drafts of his own suicide.
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting Stories by one of America\'s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde 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
