{"product_id":"creation-lake-9781982116521","title":"Creation Lake","description":"\u003cb\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*\u003cbr\u003e *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION*\u003cbr\u003e *AN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003e *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eTHE ECONOMIST, \u003c\/i\u003eTHE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, \u003ci\u003eVOX, \u003c\/i\u003e and more* \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a \"vital\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"wickedly entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Kushner is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, her latest novel; \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd, \u003c\/i\u003eher acclaimed essay collection; and the internationally bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room, The Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake \u003c\/i\u003ewas also longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875171275026,"sku":"9781982116521","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_761494f4-7d52-4bfe-a012-f7a924bf18be.jpg?v=1751125574","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/creation-lake-9781982116521","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}