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"Like a Lake is like a novella teasing an essay, or an erotic ghost haunting a fictional memoir, or a negative searching for its lost prints. It is an unnerving question-machine where desire, memory, loss and invention are staged, folded and held, tasted, re-made and undone. It's a strange, vivid, troubling and beautiful book."-Max Porter



"Like a Lake is a story of where art comes from, the love and grief held in forms - a house, a cup, a photograph, a stone. The experience of reading this novel is lake-like - a beautiful surface opens, and opens, and opens and ripples with grief."-Jennifer Doyle, author of Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art



"Like A Lake is... like a lake. A famous one, Lake Tahoe, situated on the California/Nevada border, features plot-wise and thematically in the book, almost flowing it together... an adventurous, even pioneering, book..."-Source Magazine

A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female

Carol Mavor Carol Mavor, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, is the author of Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object (Reaktion Books, 2024) and Like the Sea (Fordham University Press, Spring 2025).

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