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Zero-sum : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 251 pages : 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593535868
  • 0593535863
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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: a referendum.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction OATES, JOYCE Available 33111011072838
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction OATES, JOYCE Available 33111011301393
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction OATES, JOYCE Available 33111009479078
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 Blonde

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 -- 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: a referendum.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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