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Creation Lake (Large Print Edition)
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ISBN13: 9781420521566
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: Feb 5 2025
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize
From Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, a vital (The Washington Post) and wickedly entertaining (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.
A thirty-four-year-old American woman--a secret agent--is sent to do dirty work in France. Sadie Smith is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader.
Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by cold bump--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her contacts--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more.
In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who communicates only by email. Bruno believes that the path to emancipation from what ails modern life is not revolt, but a return to the ancient past.
Just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.
Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner's rendition of noir is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner's finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.
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