The Flamethrowers

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<p><b>* Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014*</b></p><p><b>*Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction*</b> <b></b> Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>The Flamethrowers</i>is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.</p><p><b>Best Books of the Year:</b> <b><i>* Guardian * New York Times * The Times * Observer * Financial Times * New Yorker * Telegraph * Slate * Oprah * Vogue * Time * Scotsman * Evening Standard *</i></b> <b><i></i></b> <b>Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013</b></p>

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<b>Rachel Kushner</b>s debut novel,<i>Telex from Cuba</i>, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a<i>New York Times</i>bestseller. Her follow-up novel,<i>The Flamethrowers</i>, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the<i>New Yorker</i>,<i>Harpers</i>and the<i>Paris Review</i>. She lives in Los Angeles.

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