{"product_id":"flamethrowers-book-rachel-kushner-9781439142004","title":"The Flamethrowers","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2013 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVogue;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTime;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBookish;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine; \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlate;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSalon;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eComplex.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel Kushner's \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe National Book Award, was just named a Top Ten Book of 2013 by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's top ten fiction books. Kushner's first novel, \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba, \u003c\/i\u003ewas also a finalist for a National Book Award and was reviewed on the cover of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49574511608081,"sku":"GOR007127603","price":11.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49677191250193,"sku":"CIN1439142009A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50244364632337,"sku":"CIN1439142009VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106153984273,"sku":"CIN1439142009G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52499034702097,"sku":"GOR014541283","price":7.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1439142009.jpg?v=1750756610","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/flamethrowers-book-rachel-kushner-9781439142004","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}