Zero-sum : stories /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 251 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780593535868
- 0593535863
- 813/.54 23/eng/20220708
- PS3565.A8 Z39 2023
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F | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Fiction | F OAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34480000597140 |
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F OAT Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense / | F OAT Breathe : a novel / | F OAT Babysitter / | F OAT Zero-sum : stories / | F OBR Blue at the mizzen / | F OBR Wild Decembers / | F OBR The yellow admiral / |
Zero-sum -- Mr. Stickum -- Lovesick -- Sparrow -- The cold -- Take me, I am free -- The suicide -- The baby-monitor -- Monstersister -- A theory pre-post-mortem -- This is not a drill -- M A R T H E A: a referendum.
"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 man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised 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"--
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