{"product_id":"9780008609771","title":"Zero Sum","description":"Author: Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008609771\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 19mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A master storyteller' THE TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\n Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Alluringly dark and spiky’ NEW STATESMAN\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’ DAILY MAIL\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ INDEPENDENT","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44264687272094,"sku":"HPC-9780008609771","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008609771.jpg?v=1725362190","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008609771","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}