{"product_id":"9780593535868","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 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, \u003ci\u003eZero-Sum \u003c\/i\u003ereinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918000505072,"sku":"9780593535868","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593535868_p0.jpg?v=1763722377","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593535868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}