{"product_id":"creation-lake-a-novel","title":"Creation Lake: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Kushner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Creation Lake: A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2024-09-03\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. \"Sadie Smith\" is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by \"cold bump\"--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this region of old farms and prehistoric caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who believes that the path to emancipation 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 is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner's rendition of \"noir\" is taut and dazzling. \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is Kushner's finest achievement yet--a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982116521\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Kushner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53356268880179,"sku":"9781982116521","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9781982116521.jpg?v=1778843374","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/creation-lake-a-novel","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}