Creation Lake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation Lake write by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2024-09-03. Creation Lake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "'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. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by 'cold bump'--making him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her. ... Sadie operates on 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"
Creation Lake
Creation Lake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation Lake write by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2024-09-03. Creation Lake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Creation Lake
Creation Lake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation Lake write by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2024-09-05. Creation Lake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Creation Lake
Creation Lake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation Lake write by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2024-09-05. Creation Lake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** 'The most exciting writer of her generation' BRET EASTON ELLIS 'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' OBSERVER Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been 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 a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.
The Hard Crowd
The Hard Crowd - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hard Crowd write by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2021-04-06. The Hard Crowd available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”
