The Flamethrowers: A Novel

The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Rachel Kushnerâ€™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 magazineâ€™s top ten fiction books. Kushnerâ€™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-1970sâ€”by turns underground, elite, and dangerous.

The year is 1975 and Renoâ€”so-called because of the place of her birthâ€”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 worldâ€”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 Sandroâ€™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 Kushnerâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-04-02
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781439154175

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-04-02
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781439154175

The Flamethrowers: A Novel

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