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| Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Format | 15,3 x 23,4 x 2,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 342 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780008609771 |
| Bestell-Nr | 00860977EA |
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.
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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.
'Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird' A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches
'A fierce chronicler of survival against the odds ... Unstoppable' Ali Smith
'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist' Independent
Rezension:
'Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird' A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches
'A genuine, sharp chronicler of our times, with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian
'American's pre-eminent fiction writer' New Yorker