The Devil's Treasure - Couverture rigide

Gaitskill, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1733540156 ISBN 13 : 9781733540155

Editeur : ZE Books, 2023

Synopsis

“What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I’ve been criticized― and sometimes admired―for what some readers see as my affinity with cruelty, both in my depictions of it and my supposed infliction of it on characters.”

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mary Gaitskill is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ZE Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1733540156
• ISBN 13: 9781733540155
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 237
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• Personne responsable: non disponible