Zero-Sum: Stories

By Joyce Carol Oates

Book Overview

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." 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. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593535863
• ISBN13: 9780593535868
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"