“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. 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. Rachel Kushner/The Flamethrowers. · Rachel Kushner's brilliant lightning bolt of a novel, The Flamethrowers, straddles two revolutions: the squatter-artist colonization of Manhattan's SoHo in the s, and the rise of Italy's Author: Maud Newton.
The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner Scribner, $ (cloth) The Flamethrowers was nominated for the National Book Award. "What about the epigraph, Fac ut ardeat?"Jesse Barron asks Rachel Kushner in an interview about her latest novel, The Flamethrowers, for the Paris Review.. "It's from the Stabat Mater, about the sorrows of Mary," Kushner explains. The Flamethrowers is a novel by American author Rachel Kushner. The book was released on April 2, through Scribner.. The Flamethrowers follows a female artist in the s. While writing the book, Kushner drew on personal experiences during and after college, as well as her interests in "motorcycles, art, revolution and radical politics.". Rachel Kushner's brilliant lightning bolt of a novel, The Flamethrowers, straddles two revolutions: the squatter-artist colonization of Manhattan's SoHo in the s, and the rise of Italy's.
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. Rachel Kushner/The Flamethrowers. 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 The Flamethrowers embraces the radicalism of ideas without the need for formal experiment. Photograph: Lucy Raven. Hermione Hoby. Wed 5 Jun EDT.
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