{"product_id":"zero-sum-by-joyce-carol-oates-9780008609771","title":"Zero-Sum","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’\u003c\/strong\u003e ROSE TREMAIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A master storyteller'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Electric'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmanoeuvred; 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\n\n\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, \u003cem\u003eZero-Sum\u003c\/em\u003e reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Alluringly dark and spiky’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eZero-Sum\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’\u003c\/strong\u003e A. K. BLAKEMORE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537534435564,"sku":"9780008609771","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4b76a3d2a5365a65b56d7ad1b684caed.jpg?v=1777948361","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/zero-sum-by-joyce-carol-oates-9780008609771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}