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020			_a9781787331747
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a813.6 KUS
100			_aKushner, Rachel _eAuthor
245			_aCreation lake / _cRachel Kushner.
300			_a407 pages ; _c22cm.
520			_aThis 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 him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her, used by 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.
650			_aThrillers  _vFiction.
650			_aAmerican fiction.
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