The flamethrowers : a novel
Kushner, Rachel
The flamethrowers : a novel / Rachel Kushner. - 1st Scribner paperback edition - New York : Scribner , 2013. - 383 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
The year is 1975 and Reno - so-called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world - artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro's family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow.
English.
National Book Award finalist.
9781439142011
Brigate rosse----Fiction
Women artists----Fiction
Motocycles----Fiction
Futurism----Fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Italy---Fiction
PS3611.U7386 / F57 2013
FIC KUS
The flamethrowers : a novel / Rachel Kushner. - 1st Scribner paperback edition - New York : Scribner , 2013. - 383 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
The year is 1975 and Reno - so-called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world - artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro's family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow.
English.
National Book Award finalist.
9781439142011
Brigate rosse----Fiction
Women artists----Fiction
Motocycles----Fiction
Futurism----Fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Italy---Fiction
PS3611.U7386 / F57 2013
FIC KUS
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