About the Book : Zero-Sum
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of
Americas 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 collections longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer
cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide.
In these powerfully wrought stories that