The Flamethrowers

In 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 2013

Scintillatingly alive ... It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures

Kushner is rapidly emerging as a thrilling and prodigious novelist

One of the most thrilling and high-octane literary experiences I have had in ages

It's so good, it's a little frightening … it makes any fretting over the state of the novel look plain silly

An adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel

Unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember

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

Dazzling ... The Flamethrowers is a virtuoso performance; a ride of ache and pleasure, handled with pinpoint command

This glittering novel is both carefully structured and exhilarating

Rachel Kushner’s fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.