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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner\, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award\, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake\, available in paperback July 1st. This “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France is a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor. \n \nCreation 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. \nRachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times bestseller 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 National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Folio Prize\, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Creation Lake was 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. \nMore information at: Rachel Kushner\, Creation Lake | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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