The devil's treasure : a book of stories and dreams / Mary Gaitskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- author.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--21st century.

Short stories, American.

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Short stories.

Essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Short stories.

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

237 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houston, TX : ZE Books ; Los Angeles, CA : Unnamed Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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 with 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 inform each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, the ideally, sometimes quixotically high and 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 a family that picnics on the beach while a podcast natters about politics and a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves."--from Amazon.com.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781733540155

1733540156

OCLC:

1268137519