Zero-sum : stories /
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 man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife and a young...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife and a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised 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. |
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| Item Description: | "A Borzoi book." |
| Physical Description: | 251 pages : 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593535868 0593535863 |