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From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review) , 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.. Creation Lake is 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. "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.
About the Author
Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, debuted at # 4 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the California Book Award and the Prix Médicis in France. Her previous novel, the Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the year by the New York Times. A book of early short fictions, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2014. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was reviewed on the cover of the NY Times Book Review and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Kushner's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and the Paris Review. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, and 2016 winner of the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Los Angeles.
