Joyce Carol Oates: Zero-Sum - Taschenbuch

´Oates´s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll´s´ ROSE TREMAIN

´A master storyteller´ THE TIMES

´Electric´ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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.

´Alluringly dark and spiky´ NEW STATESMAN

´Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird´ A. K. BLAKEMORE

´Dark, unsettling stories ... There´s a disquieting violence simmering ... a shrill alarm of disquiet´ DAILY MAIL

´Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist´ INDEPENDENT