Creation Lake
“Short-listed for a Booker prize!”
Ho hum. I’ve had mixed results with that sales pitch, “short-listed for the Booker,” as some have been too tedious for me. But this one, I was already in line at the library, so the novel’s relative merit a finalist was of little interest to me.
Supposedly, as freelance secret agent infiltrates a modern-day French eco-activist group. Hijinks, love, loss, remembrances, and recollections. Dryly funny.
Creation Lake
But enough, onto fate
“…the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed fated, when the only evidence of this fate is how things went.” Page 42.
A sure, deft voice.
“Pascal said the Cagot was both real and a kind of myth, but that when people believe a myth, that, too, is real. It is a real belief.” Page 171.
With a sidelong look at current events?
It had been designed as a visual warning that could be understood in any language, but in French read “DANGER: it is prohibited to climb on logs.” Page 336.
Double duty, added to the fineprint.
Really interesting, in a gripping manner, interesting story.
Creation Lake
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