Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America\u2019s most acclaimed writers.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cmother.\u201d In the collection\u2019s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with \u201cdrafts\u201d of his own suicide.<\/p>\n
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