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Rachel Kushner<\/strong> is that cool girl novelist who’s also deeply smart and thoughtful. This book is closer to\u00a0The Flamethrowers\u00a0than\u00a0The Mars Room\u00a0but what they all share is an anarchic energy and a wayward trajectory epitomised by an unruly, unbound female protagonist-narrator (I’m discounting here Kushner’s finding-her-feet-as-a-writer book\u00a0Telex from Cuba).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kushner’s women have a kind of androgyny about them: they’re sexy – here self-consciously and manipulatively so – but they also operate in environments that are more often gendered masculine: here as an ex-FBI-style agent now independent and possibly a bit rogue; in other books as part of a motorbike speed-racing group, and in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mood of this novel is unmoored: ‘Sadie Smith’, our protagonist, is operating under a pseudonym as she infiltrates a kind of eco-commune in France who may or may not be planning acts of violence. But Sadie’s clients are shadowy and morally questionable – is she working for a government agency or for big corporate business interests who want to paint protesters as criminals and terrorists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sense of disorientation permeates the text and is complicated by the presence of Bruno’s voice: a man with a troubling twentieth century past whose theories of Neanderthal man and whose retreat into the caves of France paint him initially as something between a crank and a cult guru but whose thoughts on how to live under late-stage capitalism form a parallel narrative to the main storyline – and seem to become increasingly judicious and perceptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not, I’d say, a book for readers who want a clear pull-through and who are uncomfortable with ambiguities at all levels. But for me, this is a fascinating exploration of where we are today, where we have come from and how we might be at a form of crossroads in terms of where our future lies. All that wrapped up (but never neatly or tidily) in a questing, searching, probing narrative that asks serious questions without making itself earnest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, Kushner is right up there on my list of exciting writers working today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Title<\/td>Creation Lake<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Author<\/td>Rachel Kushner<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Language<\/td>English<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
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Genres<\/td>Science Fiction<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Released Date<\/td>September 3, 2024<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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