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Brillante e di una bellezza sfacciata, a ventotto anni Jackson Ward ha appena ottenuto un posto alla San Francisco State come professore associato, si gode la vita e le sue relazioni con le donne durano al massimo qualche notte. Con una sola eccezione: Casey, l’unica quasi-amica che abbia mai avuto, l’unica sfida che non riesce a vincere. Ventiquattro anni, occhi da Bambi e nessuna grande prospettiva per il futuro, Casey Olson non ha mai eccelso in niente.

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 collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide.

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s 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...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead. You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just...