Zombie

Meet Quentin P. He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother though of course they do not believe the charge of sexual molestation of a minor that got him in that bit of trouble.<P>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.<P>He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother who gives him more and more and can deny him less and less.<P>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 the truth.