The Devil's Treasure: A Book of Stories and Dreams

Mary Gaitskill In The Devil's Treasure—aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams—the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that transcends categorization. This collage of four novels (one a work in progress), interspersed and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that went into each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience—the ideally, sometimes quixotically high, and the grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America's most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life that simultaneously blends the huge prehistoric creatures that swim at the bottom of our collective ocean with the family that picnics on the beach while the podcast natters about politics and a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves. “The medium of collage emerged to challenge the difference between the real and the artificial. Similarly, The Devil’s Treasure draws attention to the line—increasingly blurred—between fiction and nonfiction… Gaitskill, too, likes to peer into Hell, always with the utmost empathy.’” Times Literary Supplement Publication Date: 10.04.23 ISBN: 9781733540155 Extent: 280 pages Format: Hardback ***Please note, if out of stock at our warehouse, this title can be purchased at most good high street and online booksellers***