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Zero-Sum

‘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


Author:

  • Joyce Carol Oates

Narrators:

  • Olivia Rose Baressi
  • Amy Jensen
  • Max Meyers
  • Linda Jones
  • Karissa Vacker
  • Cassandra Campbell
  • Robert Fass

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 9 h 45 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Fiction
  • Short stories
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Feel-good and chick lit
  • Suspense
  • Thrillers

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    Joyce Carol Oates

    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 and . 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.

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