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Book SynopsisIn 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 2013Trade ReviewScintillatingly 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 Tóibín *
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 *
A bright burning flame of a novel * Spectator *
The Flamethrowers is a strange, fascinating beast of a novel, brimming with ideas, and sustained by the muscular propulsion of Kushner’s prose… Kushner emerges as a
wildly gifted artist filling a sketchbook with
thrilling, eye-catching scenes -- Robert Collins * Sunday Times *
There is an
exhilarating freedom to Kushner’s writing…
Taut, vividly intelligent prose -- David Wolf * Prospect *
Sparky and inventive...
a riot of a novel * Daily Mail *
Ms Kushner’s
kaleidoscopic prose carries the novel’s shifts in location and person, and
the fast-paced rhythm harnesses the thrill of adventure * Economist *
Swells with a daunting bravado * Irish Times *
