“Rachel Kushner’s 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 Released on: Janu. · Though The Flamethrowers contains such fertile subject matter as political activism, motorcycle racing, the New York art scene in the s and fascist Italy Author: Talitha Stevenson. · Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers embraces the radicalism of ideas without the need for formal experiment. Photograph: Lucy Raven. Hermione Hoby. Wed 5 Jun www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
The Flamethrowers is a coming-of-age novel of a sort, one that has dozens of topics on its mind: speed and sex, reality and counterreality, art and intellect, politics and fear and perhaps, above all, 'the fine lubricated violence of an internal combustion engine' Reno is a persuasive and moving narrator because Ms. Kushner allows her. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner's brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination. The riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mids--by turns underground, elite, and dangerous.
The young heroine of Rachel Kushner's new book The Flamethrowers negotiates art and revolution from the back of a motorcycle — both the lates art scene in Manhattan and the Italian radical. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination. more. “Rachel Kushner’s 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.
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