Zero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates

Zero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain 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 much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome

they had become the mainstay of the magazine

but they also have much in common

and all of time was there

In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days

'A dazzlingly clever tale' THE TIMES

White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon

the boy discovers that maybe home wasn't what the penguin was looking for after all

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