{"product_id":"book-gxlr","title":"Zero-Sum","description":"\u003cb\u003eZero-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 \u003ci\u003eBlonde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, \u003ci\u003eZero-Sum \u003c\/i\u003ereinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover 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 \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49322451829040,"sku":"BDgxlr","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/510837-gxlr-Square.jpg?v=1733484815","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gxlr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}