Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The FlamethrowersCondition: NewEAN: 9780099586982ISBN: 9780099586982Publisher: VintageFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/02/2014Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 29mmItem Weight: 343gAuthor: Rachel KushnerLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0099586983Description: FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONReno 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 2013Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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