{"product_id":"creation-lake-9781982116521","title":"Creation Lake","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and \"one of the most gifted authors of her generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreation Lake \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSadie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner's rendition of \"noir\" is taut and dazzling\u003ci\u003e. Creation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is Kushner's finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982116521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rachel Kushner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413685498037,"sku":"9781982116521","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b11d3778-da66-4d1f-bf1a-65769a3bd3bd.jpg?v=1720538314","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/creation-lake-9781982116521","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}