Zero-SumBy: Joyce Carol Oates Zero sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of Americas most acclaimed writers, the award winning, best selling author of Blonde 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