Creation Lake with Rachel Kushner
Wed 18 Sep 2024
7:00pm at Bath Elim Church, Charlotte St, Bath BA1 2ND
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, author interview, Q&A and signing.
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‘Compulsively readable… Kill Bill written by John le Carré’ – OBSERVER
We are incredibly excited to welcome Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, to discuss her latest novel, Creation Lake.
Rachel is the author of the Booker shortlisted novel The Mars Room, the internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers, chosen by the New York Times as one of the best 100 books of the 21st century, as well as Telex from Cuba, and her acclaimed essay collection The Hard Crowd.
Her new book, Creation Lake, follows a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an eco-activist collective in a remote corner of France. Our booksellers have long been fans of Rachel’s work, and hope you’ll join us for this very special evening.
About the book:
Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.
Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno’s idealism laughable, but just as she 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. Beneath this taut, dazzling story about a woman caught in the crossfire between the past andthe future lies a profound treatise on human history. Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner’s finest novel yet – a work of high art, high comedy and irresistible pleasure.
‘A thrilling and prodigious novelist‘ JONATHAN FRANZEN
‘The most exciting writer of her generation’ BRET EASTON ELLIS
‘Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture’ HERNAN DIAZ