Zero-Sum

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America´s most acclaimed writers A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosophermentor 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