The Flamethrowers

Author(s): Rachel Kushner

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 Flamethrowersis an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.Best Books of the Year- * Guardian * 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


Product Information

Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2014. Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 and Folio Prize 2014.

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, Cabinet, and Grand Street. She lives in Los Angeles.

General Fields

  • : 9780099586982
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.378
  • : December 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Rachel Kushner
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813/.6
  • : 383
  • : FA