‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers. ‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ Rose Tremain 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. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches ‘A fierce chronicler of survival against the odds … Unstoppable’ Ali Smith ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ Independent ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches ‘A genuine, sharp chronicler of our times, with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl ‘A writer of extraordinary strengths’ Guardian ‘American’s pre-eminent fiction writer’ New Yorker Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. • Joyce Carol Oates is a multi-award-winning modern literary great, named ‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ by the New Yorker. Her accolades include the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize, the National Medal of Humanities & several nominations for the Pulitzer. • Zero Sum is a collection of dark, psychologically intense, and thrilling short stories in the tradition of Joyce’s most popular writing, that her readers will love & that will appeal to those with an appetite for dark academia. • Joyce’s most recent novel, Babysitter, was brilliantly received in the press, with rave reviews in the Observer, Financial Times and the Mail on Sunday. Competition: blonde;babysitter;we were the mulvaneys;the marriage plot;vanishing act of esme lennox;gone girl;how to kill your family; sharp objects;magpie;the secret history;lovely, dark, deep;her body and other parties. elizabeth strout;julian barnes;gillian flynn;ian mcewan;bella mackie;shirley jackson
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