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In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.
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Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013
An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s - by turns underground, elite, dangerous
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An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s - by turns underground, elite, dangerous.
From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Mars Room
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed.
A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left and drawn into a spiral of violence and betrayal.
The Flamethrowers is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.
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- New York Times
- The Times
- Observer
- Financial Times
- New Yorker
- Telegraph
- Slate
- Oprah
- Vogue
- Time
- Scotsman
- Evening Standard
Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013
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Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers is praised for its vibrant and dynamic storytelling, filled with anecdotes and richly-crafted characters. Critics regard Kushner as a prodigious talent, with the novel delivering an exhilarating literary experience. It has been described as an ambitious, beautifully written piece that blends the political and personal with precision. The novel's vivid depiction of the 1970s art scene and its thrilling, inventive narrative structure make it a standout in contemporary literature.
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ISBN: 9780099586982
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 January 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 308g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Medicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.
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