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Title	:	The Flamethrowers
Author	:	Rachel Kushner
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 383 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2013 by Scribner
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. Art

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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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Original Title:	The Flamethrowers
ISBN:	1439142009 (ISBN13: 9781439142004)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	SoHo, New York City, New York(United States) East Village, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2015), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2014)

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The critic James Wood in his review for the New Yorker pin-points it perfectly:"Rachel Kushners second novel, The Flamethrowers (Scribner), is scintillatingly alive, and also alive to artifice. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story. It is nominally a historical novel (its set in the mid-seventies), and, I suppose, also a realist one (it works within the traditional grammar of

Rachel Kushner writes beautifully. Time and again reading this novel you'll pause to admire a near-perfect sentence or to marvel at an innovative description or a simile that bursts with freshness. Consider for example this evocative passage: "It was the morning of the fourth of July and kids were lighting smoke bombs, sulfurous coils of red and green, the colors dense and bright like concentrated dye blooming through water." Wow. Hardly a page goes by which doesn't contain another such well



I had a second opportunity to review this title and it was published in Volume 16 of the online journal Avatar Review. The link is here. Below is my first attempt after reading the book.--------------------------The flamethrowers with their twin tanks, and their gas mask were Sandros favorite of the assault company dolls. The asbestos sweater and balloon pants and gauntlet gloves you could outfit them with so they could not carbonize when they set a woods on fire. A woods or bunker or enemy

As is usual, I received this book via a GoodReads giveaway. Despite that kind consideration, I'll proceed to say unkind things about it.The novel simultaneously describes the lives of a young woman in 1977 and the man decades before who built the motorcycle she now rides about on as the roams through the avant garde art world of the day.On the positive side, this book is a wonderfully written and carefully crafted piece of literature. The author has gone to great pains to weave together some

(2.5) One of those books I feel sheepish for not grasping the appeal of (I had a similar experience with Adam Johnsons The Orphan Masters Son in 2013). I read the first 135 pages in April 2014 before my NetGalley download expired, but always meant to pick it up from the library. When I finally did a few days ago, I realized I had zero interest in finishing.Alternating sections are about Valera, a Milan motorcycle maker, and Reno, a daredevil female rider and budding artist in 1970s New York.

I really did not care for this book nor for the main character(s). Flat, pretentious people and a story which is far less interesting than you anticipated, given all the favourable publicity. I am afraid that I have, once more, fallen into the trap of a hyped-up book. I refer to the review of Ross of Aug 30, 2013, whose feelings about the book are quite similar to mine. I would also like to stress, like Ross does, that I think Rachel Kushner has talent. Perhaps her next book will demonstrate