The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

Named a Best Book of 2013 by The New York Times; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Time; Bookish; New York magazine; The New Yorker; Slate; Flavorwire; Publishers Weekly; Kirkus Reviews; Salon; and Complex.

Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award, was just named a Top Ten Book of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review and one of Time magazine's top ten fiction books. Kushner's first novel, Telex from Cuba, was also a finalist for a National Book Award and was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. The Flamethrowers, even more ambitious and brilliant, is the riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s--by turns underground, elite, and dangerous.

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world--artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro's family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow.

The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner's brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination.

Rachel Kushner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013, Telex from Cuba, a National Book Award finalist, and The Mars Room. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9781439142004
ISBN 10	1439142009
Title	The Flamethrowers
Author	Rachel Kushner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2013-04-02
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Commended for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2013, Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.