The Flamethrowers: Rachel Kushner - Brossura

Kushner, Rachel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099586983 ISBN 13: 9780099586982

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2014

Riassunto

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOM

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Reno 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 2013

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Scintillatingly alive... It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures" (James Wood New Yorker)

"Kushner is rapidly emerging as a thrilling and prodigious novelist" (Jonathan Franzen)

"One of the most thrilling and high-octane literary experiences I have had in ages" (Colum McCann Sunday Independent)

"It's so good, it's a little frightening... it makes any fretting over the state of the novel look plain silly" (Guardian)

"An adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember" (New York Times)

"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" (Colm Tóibķn)

"Dazzling... The Flamethrowers is a virtuoso performance; a ride of ache and pleasure, handled with pinpoint command" (The Times)

"This glittering novel is both carefully structured and exhilarating" (Daily Telegraph)

"Rachel Kushner’s fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground" (Vanity Fair)

Descrizione del libro:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099586983
• ISBN 13: 9780099586982
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400