Mary Gaitskill is unique among American novelists in her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we dont even know we are living.* In this searching biography of the writers imagination, Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil’s Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban cellar door.

The result is an answer to Gaitskills critics and, simultaneously, the best book we have about contemporary fiction, the forces ranged against it, and the forces that bring it into being.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2023
Publisher: McNally Editions
Pages: 267
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781946022820
ISBN 10: 1946022829