Rachel Kushner
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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2024 National Book Award for Fiction - Shortlist and Longlist
Booker Prize Shortlist/Longlist 2024
Most Anticipated Fiction—Fall 2024
Readalikes for 'Creation Lake'
Booker Prize Shortlist/Longlist 2024
Most Anticipated Fiction—Fall 2024
Readalikes for 'Creation Lake'
Description
"Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "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...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed, the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality, thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. The...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
6) Malina
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1140
Publisher
New Directions Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is 'equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' (New York Times Book Review) Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes, and in the process demolishes Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utterly singular...