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Paperback / softback. New. ‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ Rose Tremain <p> <strong>Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.</strong> </p>

Fourth Estate, 2023. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 272 pages. 9.21x6.02x0.87 inches.

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Harper Collins UK | 2023 | Trade Paperback | 272 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 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… Read More

Fourth Estate, 2023. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 272 pages. 9.21x6.02x0.87 inches.