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A rare work of criticism, memoir, and mythography from an author aware of all the hidden chambers of the heart. (Greil Marcus, New York Times Magazine) 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 Devils 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. Even among other artists attracted to weakness as a theme, [Gaitskill] is rare in being able to look at it on its own terms. She doesnt treat it like a curiosity, like Diane Arbus, or a chink in the armor that might let in faith, like Flannery OConnor. She isnt afraid of it, like Muriel Spark; nor does she insist its depictions rouse us to action, like Sontag. She looks--just looks--and sees everything. --Parul Seghal, New York Times Magazine*
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