The Flamethrowers
by Kushner, Rachel
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- good
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1439142017
- ISBN 13
- 9781439142011
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Synopsis
Rachel Kushner’s first novel, Telex from Cuba, was nominated for a National Book Award and reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review . Her second novel, 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.
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- Title
- The Flamethrowers
- Author
- Kushner, Rachel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1439142017
- ISBN 13
- 9781439142011
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2014-02-04
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.