'Zero-Sum is brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird' A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches
'A genuine, sharp chronicler of our times, with a remarkable ability to sway from keen modernity to complete Gothic' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian
'American's pre-eminent fiction writer'New Yorker
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America's most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.
