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Zombie

Joyce Carol Oates

19951 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1995
first published
  • 1995Dutton · 181 pages · ENGISBN 9780525940456
  • 2009HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061960116
  • 1996Penguin Audio · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780140862164
  • 1996Plume · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780452275003
  • 2009Ecco · 192 pagesISBN 9780061778919

Meet Quentin P.He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble.He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his openness in discussing them.He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more, and can deny him less and less.He is the most believable and thoroughly terrifying sexual psychopath and killer ever to be brought to life in fiction, as Joyce Carol Oates achieves her boldest and most brilliant triumph yet-a dazzling work of art that extends the borders of the novel into the darkest heart of truth.

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