Flamethrowers A Novel

Name: Flamethrowers A Novel
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ISBN: 9781439142011

ISBN-10: 1439142017

ISBN-13: 9781439142011

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rachel Kushner

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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller and most highly acclaimed novel of Spring 2013, the "scintillatingly alive" (James Wood, The New Yorker) story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s--"electric, addictive, smart, and satisfying" (O, The Oprah Magazine).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 that world--artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her second novel, The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, and Grand Street.