Rachel Kushner~SIGNED & DATED IN PERSON~Creation Lake~1st/1st + Photos!

CREATION LAKE   by TWO-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST (Flamethrowers & Mars Room)Rachel Kushner  Scribner, New York, 2024.  Hardcover.  A Great Gift Idea ! ~ for a friend ~ or just for yourself !!!   SIGNED!   SIGNED & DATED!   SIGNED!

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SIGNED & DATED IN PERSON (Sept. 5, 2024) by Rachel Kushner directly on the full title page.NOT signed to anyoneNOT SIGNED ON A BLANK PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE!!!BONUS: Photos of Rachel Kushner at her book signing event will be included with the signed book!

Book is in Fine, Brand New Condition and unread. No marks or inscriptions. Opened only to be signed. Dust jacket is in Fine, Brand New Condition, bright, clean, NOT price-clipped. In a protective removable mylar cover.

A Must Have for any Rachel Kushner fan !!!

~ A Beautiful Collectible, Autographed 1st Edition/1st Printing for Collectors ~

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, LitHub, The Millions, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more!“At last I get to say how deeply, madly, irrecoverably I loved Creation Lake...it was all stylish and cool, and then somehow the book struck a blow to my heart.” —Louise Erdrich, KirkusFrom 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. 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.

Reviews

Praise for CREATION LAKE“A profound and irresistible page-turner about a spy-for-hire who infiltrates a commune of eco-activists in rural France. The prose is thrilling, the ideas electrifying.” —The Booker Prize 2024 judges on Creation Lake"Creation Lake bears all the hallmarks of her inquisitive mind and creative daring... a spy thriller laced with a killer dose of deadpan wit... Kushner inhabits the spy’s perspective with such eerie finesse that you feel how much fun she’s having... the real covert operative here is Kushner, who’s never felt more cunning than in this novel about the clashing ideological claims that have left us bereft at the end of time. Bore through this noir posing and wry satire of radical politics, and you feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post“Using the framework of an espionage novel, Kushner creates a spellbinding story of intrigue and subterfuge that examines the limits of control and moral influence." —Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times"Kushner’s outrageous talent blazes hot throughout the book …Kushner has tapped into something primal, pure, and unforgettable.”—Leigh Haber, Boston Globe“A dazzling work of fiction: brisk, stylish, funny, moving, and, unexpectedly, piercingly moral…At once terse and vivid, economical and expansive…true, funny, sad, shrewd, and beautifully controlled through each unyielding sentence.” —Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books"Kushner is as intimidatingly intelligent as this twisty novel’s main character." —Emma Alpern, New York Magazine"Extraordinary... full of tension and clarity... riveting... incredibly fun." —Nicolás Medina Mora, The Nation“As in a Graham Greene or John le Carre novel, in Creation Lake the point of spying is not just to find out what is happening but how to pick one’s way through a world of ideas... so fun...” —Laura Marsh, The New Republic"Ambitious, intelligent and gripping... Creation Lake is one of the best books of the year so far." —The Spectator“One of the most interesting and adept voices in contemporary fiction… Kushner’s writing is clean, tight and often very funny as she jumps between past and present but never loosens her iron grip on the reader’s attention.” —Bloomberg"All the hallmarks of an excellent thriller are here, as are Kushner's gifts for dark humor and stunning prose, to make for an exciting, exhilarating tear through the shadowy underbelly of international espionage—and the very human emotions that can complicate it." —Town and Country MagazineAbout the AuthorRachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, her latest novel, The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. 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 are translated into twenty-seven languages.

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