Zero-sum : stories
Call Number
- FICTION OATE (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Physical Description
251 pages : 25 cm
Summary
"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"--
Notes
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Contents
- 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 referendum.