The Flamethrowers

A Novel

De: Rachel Kushner

Narrado por: Rachel Kushner

Duración: 15 h y 27 m

Resumen del Editor

National Book Award finalist

Named One of the 10 Best Books by The New York Times Book Review

New York Magazine’s Number One Book of the Year

Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker; Time; Flavorwire; Salon; Slate; The Daily Beast

“Superb.... Scintillatingly alive.... A pure explosion of now.” (The New Yorker)

Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity—artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts—by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner.

©2013 Rachel Kushner. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Love her.

Her performance is really good. Some parts of her book were confusing and hard to follow, others were really well written.

Excellence!

The Flamethrowers is an amazing read. The story is lyrical and very photographic. Highly recommended.

Recommended

Aside from the worst introductory and concluding music I have ever heard in my life, this book is exceedingly well written and interesting, especially from the perspective of a 67-year-old woman, remembering the…….bad old days.

Expansive and metaphorical; interesting story with a unique trajectory.

Timeless themes worth pondering, somewhat (or not so somewhat) randomly couched in the story of a young, daring but naive, woman in a man’s world, a neophyte youth’s wanderings and loose-relation encounters in NYC, indentured servitude of international capitalism, rubber plantation slaves and slavers, greed, revolution, familial loyalty, revenge, naive ignorance, unintentional results, circular Justice. Scenes of Lower Manhattan in the 70’s are interwoven into a young woman’s naive caper into the misogynistic international art scene and thus into an Italian tire magnate’s family and promo business and specifically into the strangeness of Italian post-WW2 revolutionary history, all the while navigating and avenging, however inadvertently, brutal sexism and surviving it, relatively intact. Well-narrated by the author is always a bonus. Waiting in the spitting snow at the bottom of a cross-border ski trail escape from Italy France………this is the end.
Seriously it could all be a dream, a flash of life-before-your-eyes, as wiping out doing 150mph on a Nevada salt flat has to be fatal - motorcycle leathers are not going to save you.