{"product_id":"9780008609801","title":"Zero-Sum by Oates, Joyce Carol","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Oates, Joyce Carol \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 July 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 19 | 190g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A master storyteller'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Electric'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Alluringly dark and spiky’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48644902682817,"sku":"9780008609801","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9780008609801.jpg?v=1770198405","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/fr\/products\/9780008609801","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}