{"product_id":"zero-sum","title":"Zero-sum","description":"Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\n\nA 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.\n\nIn 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.","brand":"HARPER COLLINS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54943841845591,"sku":"9780008609801","price":17.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/932123482191.jpg?v=1788819499","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/zero-sum","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}