by Rachel Kushner · tapa dura · ISBN 9781439142011
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«The Flamethrowers» is Rachel Kushner's novel, published by Scribner in hardback (387 pages, in English).
Reno arrives in New York in 1975 to turn her passion for motorcycles and speed into art, in a SoHo occupied by artists who blur the boundary between life and work. Her relationship with Sandro Valera, heir to an Italian tyre-and-motorcycle empire, takes her to Italy, where the political ferment of the seventies envelops her.
A finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Rachel Kushner is also the author of Telex from Cuba and The Mars Room.
For readers of literary fiction drawn to the artistic New York of the seventies, motorcycle culture and political ferment in Italy.
Rachel Kushner is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), The Mars Room (2018), and Creation Lake (2024).
