| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
251 pages : 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Retribution -- Fiction.
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Stalking victims -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Women -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Psychological fiction.
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Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780593535868 (hardcover) |
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0593535863 (hardcover) |
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