Zero-Sum: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero-Sum: Stories Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Olivia Rose Barresi, Amy Jensen, Max Meyers, Karissa Vacker, Linda Jones, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde 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. Cover image:  Zeno's Arrow. 1964 by René Magritte © 2022 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Banque d'Images, ADAGP / Art Resource, NY