{"product_id":"zero-sum","title":"Zero-Sum","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' ROSE TREMAIN\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A master storyteller' THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Alluringly dark and spiky' NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird' A. K. BLAKEMORE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Dark, unsettling stories ... There's a disquieting violence simmering ... a shrill alarm of disquiet' DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist' INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Zero-Sum","offer_id":50960679043269,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-860980-1.jpg?v=1794546543","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/zero-sum","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}