02167cam a2200301 4500 1648763042 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593741641 0593741641 0030268964 Axis360 TxAuBib Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Zero-sum [Boundless]. Unabridged. Random House Digital, 2023. Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of BlondeA 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.Cover image: Zeno's Arrow. 1964 by René Magritte © 2022 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Banque d'Images, ADAGP / Art Resource, NY. Format: Acoustik. FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Family Life / General. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-07 21:15:28. Fiction Family Life General. Fiction Literary. Fiction fast Short Stories (single author.) Barresi, Olivia Rose; Jensen, narrator. https://marioncl.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030268964 T3F