Creation Lake
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION*
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*
From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.
Creation 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.
In 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.
Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner’s finest achievement yet—a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.©2024 Rachel Kushner (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-12-28
Read instead of listen!
This book might be great - many times I found it funny and well written - but the narrator made it incredibly difficult to get through.
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- JRSH
- 2025-03-03
Horrendous narrator- bizarre cadence
So look, the story itself is excellent, but getting through it was done in micro-doses because the cadence of the narrator was just awful. La-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaa (downward trajectory in tone/intonation)…I had to keep turning it off and then getting back in for 10 minute intervals because I couldn’t take it. Audible needs to have a review team listen before clearing/approving books for sale.
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- KB
- 2024-12-14
Monotone deliver makes it impossible to get through
The reviews of this book are strong and the synopsis was intriguing but I cannot get through it. I made it to chapter two and realized I have no idea what I listened to so started over. I am ten minutes in and again zoning out. There is no emotion or emphasis- monotone throughout. I can barely tell if she is trying to be sarcastic, funny, factual etc. Does the delivery get better as it goes on? Should I stick it through to the end?
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- owenca
- 2024-12-02
Suspenseful and Satiric
About an audacious female spy hired by government and business interests who want to cripple environmental and human rights activists. Or is she an unreliable narrator and actually inept? Builds to an unexpected ending you could debate for days after reading.
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