The Flamethrowers: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner * Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazines #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of the Year by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker; Time; Flavorwire; Salon; Slate; The Daily Beast "Superb...Scintillatingly alive...A pure explosion of now."--The New Yorker Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity--artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts--by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Rachel Kushner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Creation Lake, her latest novel; 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 Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Creation Lake was also longlisted for the National Book Award. 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 have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Review "Brilliant and exhilarating...Kushner fearlessly tackles art, death, and social unrest. In so doing, she has written the sort of relentless and immersive novel that forces the reader to look up and make sure the room hasnt disappeared around her."--Eugenia Williamson "The Boston Globe""Electric...addictive...smart and satisfying."--Kristy Davis "O, the Oprah magazine""I loved Rachel Kushners The Flamethrowers."--Jonathan Franzen "The New York Times Book Review""The Flamethrowers is 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. Kushner writes about excitement and tension with gusto and grace; she describes Italy and New York with a dark and savvy irony."--Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and The Testament of Mary"The Flamethrowers is about machines (motorcycles and guns, but also cameras) and the way they revolutionized the last century (its politics and violence, but also its art)...[Kushners] style is a rare blend of romanticism and historicism--with a sense of precision."--Christian Lorentzen "Bookforum""The Flamethrowers lives up to its incendiary title--it is a brilliant, startling truly revolutionary book about the New York art world of the seventies, Italian class warfare, and youths blind acceleration into the unknown. Kushner is a genius prose stylist, and her Reno is one of the most fully realized protagonists Ive ever encountered, moving fluidly from the fringe of the fringe movement to the center of the action. I want to recommend this stunning book to everyone I know."--Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!"The Flamethrowers not only harnesses the energies of violent Italian politics; it also converts the intensity of radical New York visual art into shining, whirling prose."--Jimmy So "The Daily Beast""The Flamethrowers unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember. It plays out as if on Imax, or simply higher-grade film stock...Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of ....Robert Stone and Joan Didion...[Kushner has] a sensibility thats on constant alert for crazy, sensual, often ravaged beauty...persuasive and moving...provocative."--Dwight Garner "The New York Times""[A] big, rich wonder of a novel... [Kushners] polychrome sentences...are shot through with all the longing and regret you find in those of Thomas Pynchon, whose influence is all over this novel... a glittering, grave, brutally unsentimental book thats spectacularly written enough to touch greatness."--Craig Seligman "Bloomberg News""[A] brilliant lightning bolt of a novel...The Flamethrowers is an entire world, intimately and convincingly observed, filled with characters whose desires feel true. It is also an uncannily perceptive portrait of our culture--psychologically and philosophically astute, candid about class, art, sex and the position of women--with a deadly accuracy that recalls the young Joan Didion, and that, despite the precisely rendered historical backdrop, gives the story a timeless urgency."--Maud Newton "NPR""A novel of art and politics but also of bikes and speed...exhilarating."-- "Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review""Exhilarating...its impossible not to be pulled in by the authors sense of the periods vitality...the novels brilliance is in its understanding of arts relationship to risk, and in its portrait of Renos--and New Yorks--age of innocence."--Megan OGrady "Vogue""Exhilarating, psychologically complex, and perfectly intense, this is a thrilling contemporary novel likely to become a cultural touchstone."--Emily Temple "Flavorwire""I didnt know what it could possibly look like for something to be a super smart sexy novel; now I know. The Flamethrowers is its own category of Wow, and Kushner is the champion of something strange, wonderful and real."--Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances"In her smash-hit debut, Telex from Cuba (2008), Kushner took on corporate imperialism and revolution, themes that also stoke this knowing and imaginative saga of a gutsy yet naïve artist from Nevada... Kushner, with searing insights, contrasts the obliteration of the line between life and art in hothouse New York with life-or-death street battles in Rome. Adroitly balancing astringent social critique with deep soundings of the complex psyches of her intriguing characters, Kushner has forged an incandescently detailed, cosmopolitan, and propulsively dramatic tale of creativity and destruction."-- "Booklist, STARRED review""Kushner can write like blazes."--Karen Long "The Cleveland Plain Dealer""Life, gazed at with exemplary intensity over hundreds of pages and thousands of sentences precision-etched with detail--thats what The Flamethrowers feels like. Thats what it is. And it could scarcely be better. The Flamethrowers is a political novel, a feminist novel, a sexy novel, and a kind of thriller...Virtually every page contains a paragraph that merits--and rewards--rereading."--Tom Bissell "Harpers""Oscillating between the hedonistic New York artworld and Italy in the midst of the Years of Lead, The Flamethrowers is that rare thing, a novel that uses recent history not as a picturesque backdrop, but as a way of interrogating the present. Kushners urgent prose and psychological acuity make this one of the most compelling and enjoyable novels Ive read this year."--Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men"Rachel Kushner so deftly interweaves the story of an Italian industrialist with that of a young woman insinuating herself into the 1970s New York art scene that The Flamethrowers slowly and seductively becomes a novel you just cant quit."--Sherryl Connelly "New York Daily News""Rachel Kushner writes dazzling, sexy, glorious prose. She is as brilliant on men and motorcycles as she is on art and film. The Flamethrowers is an ambitious and powerful novel."--Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document and Stone Arabia"Rachel Kushners fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground of The Flamethrowers."--Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair""Rachel Kushners new novel, The Flamethrowers, is a high-wire performance worthy of Philippe Petit. On lines stretched tight between satire and eulogy, she strolls above the self-absorbed terrain of the New York art scene in the 1970s, providing a vision alternately intimate and elevated...[Kushner is] a superb recent-historical novelist...20 brilliant pages [of The Flamethrowers] could make any writers career: a set piece of New York night life thats a daze of comedy, poignancy and violence...What really dazzles...is her ability to steer this zigzag plot so expertly that she can let it spin out of control now and then...The Flamethrowers concludes with two astonishing scenes: one all black, one all white, as striking as any of the desert photographs Reno aspires to shoot, but infinitely richer and more evocative. Hang on: This is a trip you dont want to miss."--Ron Charles "The Washington Post""Rachel Kushners second novel, The Flamethrowers, 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 manifests itself as a pure explosion of now: it catches us in its mobile, flashing present, which is the living reality it conjures on the page at the moment we are reading... Kushner employs a[n]...eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical...Kushner watches the New York art world of the late seventies with sardonic precision and lancing humor, using Renos reportorial hospitality to fill her pages with lively portraits and outrageous cameos...[Kushners] novel is an achievement precisely because it resists either paranoid connectedness or knowing universalism. On the contrary, it succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive."--James Wood "The New Yorker""The controlled intensity and perception in Rachel Kushners novels mark her as one of the most brilliant writers of the oncoming century. Shes going to be one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom well be needing in hard times to come. Rachel Kushner is a novelist of the very first order. The Flamethrowers follows Telex from Cuba as a masterful work."--Robert Stone"This rich second novel from Kushner takes place in late-70s New York City and Italy...Kushners psychological explorations of her characters are incisive, the novel is peppered with subtle 70s details, and it bursts with you-are-there depictions of its time and places."-- "Publishers Weekly, STARRED review" Review Quote "Vividly drawn…[A] keenly observed story." Details ISBN1439142017 Author Rachel Kushner Short Title FLAMETHROWERS Publisher Scribner Book Company Language English ISBN-10 1439142017 ISBN-13 9781439142011 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.6 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-14 Subtitle A Novel UK Release Date 2014-01-14 Pages 432 Imprint Scribner Book Company Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:78220209;

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