Zero-Sum: Stories
Famille (récits), Oeuvres littéraires (romans), Nouvelles
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
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.