Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - ISBN: 9781529933383
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Seductive agent infiltrates French commune, caught between past and future.
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Creation Lake

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    8 July 2025

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Summary

This summer, meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover - the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller.

‘Hugely enjoyable’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Wonderfully seductive’ ALAN HOLLINGHURST ‘Really fantastic - get it!’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER ‘Entrancing’ MICK HERRON

Sadie Smith - a 34-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: …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529933383
ISBN-10:1529933382
Author:Rachel Kushner
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:8 July 2025
Weight:293g
Dimensions:27mm x 129mm x 197mm
A-Format
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - ISBN: 9781529933383
129 × 197 mm
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C-Format
A4
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

One of the best books of the year… ambitious, intelligent and gripping… an expertly slick thriller… Kushner pulls off a remarkable feat – Philip Womack * Spectator *
Rachel Kushner may have written the novel of the year… A remarkably original book – Rachel Connolly * The Telegraph *
Kushner is one of America’s greatest living authors * Daily Telegraph *
A novel of ideas about nothing less than civilisation itself, delivered in the guise of a thriller – the result is profound and wickedly entertaining * Guardian *
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, which surprised me a lot, because I did not suspect what Rachel Kushner was really up to all along. – Louise Erdrich * Kirkus *
Hugely enjoyable… Creation Lake is a smart, funny novel that dares to contemplate the void of uncertainty where we all stand * Sunday Times, Book of the Week *
A philosophical novel of ideas wrapped up in a spy caper… Irresistible * Guardian *
A dazzling, genre-defying novel, satirical yet profound * Spectator *

About The Author

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is the author of:

  • The Hard Crowd (essay collection)
  • Creation Lake (novel)
  • The Mars Room (novel)
  • The Flamethrowers (novel)
  • Telex from Cuba (novel)
  • The Strange Case of Rachel K (short stories)

She has won the Prix Medicis and been shortlisted 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.

Kushner 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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