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Zero-Sum
- Narrated by: Olivia Rose Baressi, Amy Jensen, Max Meyers, Linda Jones, Karissa Vacker, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
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 reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.
Critic reviews
‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches
‘A genuine, sharp chronicler of our times, with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
‘A writer of extraordinary strengths’ Guardian
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- Sheridan Le Fanu
- 17-04-24
Captures the internal monologue brilliantly
I'm a JCO fangirl and I'm surprised that more of her books are not on Audible. She is brilliant at capturing the internal monologues of her characters and touches on the more gruesome aspects of motherhood that a woman with children may be too fearful to confess.
Can't help thinking that if JCO was a man she would achieve more recognition..only a woman wrier could be criticized for being "too productive."
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