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She called it an espionage thriller sealed tight in the plastic wrap of noir.
Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake is an espionage thriller sealed tight in the plastic wrap of noir.
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She called it an espionage thriller sealed tight in the plastic wrap of noir.
Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake is an espionage thriller sealed tight in the plastic wrap of noir.
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An espionage thriller wrapped in noir, following a former FBI agent turned spy infiltrating a radical farming collective in France.
Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake is an espionage thriller sealed tight in the plastic wrap of noir. Her main character, a young woman, is a former FBI agent turned freelance spy who infiltrates a radical farming collective in France. You don't read Kushner for the relatability of her characters. Instead, it's her dead-on language and orange threat-alert atmosphere that draw readers in.
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The novel was described as an espionage thriller with existential dread, hailed as Kushner's coolest book yet.
Rachel Kushner's new novel, Creation Lake, has been long listed for the Booker Prize.
Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan says, this tale of spies, subversives and Cro-Magnon Man may be Kushner's coolest book yet.
Creation Lake is an espionage thriller sealed tight in the soiled plastic wrap of noir.
Existential dread and exhaustion are its signature moods.
Double-crossing seduction and sudden death, its plot devices.
