The Flamethrowers
Author: Kushner, Rachel
ISBN: 9780099586982
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Feb 2014
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s - by turns underground, elite, dangerous
Plt;bPgt;FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF Plt;iPgt;THE MARS ROOMPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMENP#39;S PRIZE FOR FICTIONPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;The FlamethrowersPlt;/iPgt; is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Best Books of the Year: Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;* Guardian * New York Times * The Times * Observer * Financial Times * New Yorker * Telegraph * Slate * Oprah * Vogue * Time * Scotsman * Evening Standard * Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013Plt;/bPgt;
ISBN: 9780099586982
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Feb 2014
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s - by turns underground, elite, dangerous
Plt;bPgt;FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF Plt;iPgt;THE MARS ROOMPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMENP#39;S PRIZE FOR FICTIONPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;The FlamethrowersPlt;/iPgt; is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Best Books of the Year: Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;* Guardian * New York Times * The Times * Observer * Financial Times * New Yorker * Telegraph * Slate * Oprah * Vogue * Time * Scotsman * Evening Standard * Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013Plt;/bPgt;
