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The flamethrowers

"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." -- cover, page 4

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  • "Flame throwers"
  • "The flamethrowers"@it
  • "Flame-throwers"

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  • "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. - from cover p. [4]"
  • "Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy."
  • ""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." -- cover, page 4"@en
  • "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. - from cover p. [2]"
  • "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."
  • "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. - from cover p. [2]."
  • "Die literarische Sensation aus den USA! Dieses Buch ist ein erzählerisches Naturereignis - ein Roman über eine schnelle junge Frau auf einem Motorrad, ihre Liebschaften im New Yorker Kunst-Underground der späten Siebziger und ihre politischen Verwicklungen im Italien der Roten Brigaden. 1975: Die Hobby-Motorradrennfahrerin Reno (so ihr Spitzname, nach ihrem Geburtsort) kommt nach einem Rekordversuch auf den grossen Salzseen nach Manhattan, um in die kreativ explodierende Künstlerszene SoHos einzutauchen. In einer Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Leben und Kunst verschwimmen, trifft sie auf eine Schar von Träumern, Revoluzzern und Phantasten: Unter ihnen auch Sandro Valera, erfolgreicher Konzeptkünstler und exzentrischer Erbe einer italienischen Reifen- und Motorrad-Dynastie, in den sie sich verliebt. Aber bei einem Besuch seiner Familie in deren Sommerresidenz am Comer See gerät sie in den Strudel einer echten Revolte, die sich in Streiks, Strassenkämpfen, Entführung und Mord Bahn bricht ... Als dieser Roman 2013 in New York erschien, löste er ein unbeschreibliches Echo unter Rezensenten und Autoren aus. Von Jonathan Franzen über Joshua Ferris zu Colum McCann - unterschiedlicher könnten die Romanciers nicht sein, einheitlicher nicht die Ansicht, dass "Flammenwerfer" im Sturm über alle vorgefassten Meinungen, was heute einen guten Roman auszumachen habe, hinwegfegt und all seine Leser mitreisst und begeistert. (Quelle: books.ch)."
  • "Rachel Kushner?s -- 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."@en
  • "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.--Back cover."

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  • "Text"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Bildungsromans"

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  • "Flammekasterne"@da
  • "Flammekasterne"
  • "Alev püskürtenler : roman"
  • "Flammenwerfer : Roman"
  • "The flamethrowers"
  • "The flamethrowers"@en
  • "Flammenwerfer"
  • "De vlammenwerpers : roman"
  • "I lanciafiamme"
  • "I lanciafiamme"@it
  • "The flame throwers"
  • "The Flamethrowers a Novel"@en
  • "The Flamethrowers"
  • "The flamethrowers : a novel"
  • "Los lanzallamas"
  • "Los lanzallamas"@es
  • "The flamethrowers a novel"
  • "Flammekasterne : roman"@da
  • "Les lance-flammes : roman"

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