{"product_id":"the-flamethrowers-rachel-kushner-by-rachel-kushner-3692w","title":"The Flamethrowers: Rachel Kushner by Rachel Kushner","description":"\u003cp\u003eFROM 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.  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  Review Scintillatingly alive... It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures -- James Wood  New Yorker  Kushner is rapidly emerging as a thrilling and prodigious novelist -- Jonathan Franzen  One of the most thrilling and high-octane literary experiences I have had in ages -- Colum McCann  Sunday Independent  It's so good, it's a little frightening... it makes any fretting over the state of the novel look plain silly  Guardian  An adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel  Sunday Telegraph  Unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember  New York Times  An ambitious and serious American novel. The sentences are sharp and gorgeously made. The scope is wide. The political and the personal are locked in a deep and fascinating embrace  Colm T?b?  Dazzling... The Flamethrowers is a virtuoso performance; a ride of ache and pleasure, handled with pinpoint command  The Times  This glittering novel is both carefully structured and exhilarating  Daily Telegraph  Rachel Kushner's fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground  Vanity Fair  A bright burning flame of a novel  Spectator  The Flamethrowers is a strange, fascinating beast of a novel, brimming with ideas, and sustained by the muscular propulsion of Kushner's prose... Kushner emerges as a wildly gifted artist filling a sketchbook with thrilling, eye-catching scenes -- Robert Collins  Sunday Times  There is an exhilarating freedom to Kushner's writing... Taut, vividly intelligent prose -- David Wolf  Prospect  Sparky and inventive...a riot of a novel  Daily Mail  Ms Kushner's kaleidoscopic prose carries the novel's shifts in location and person, and the fast-paced rhythm harnesses the thrill of adventure  Economist  Swells with a daunting bravado  Irish Times  From the Back Cover 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.  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 M?icis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41844295565386,"sku":"3692w","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3692w.jpg?v=1765829482","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-flamethrowers-rachel-kushner-by-rachel-kushner-3692w","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}