The flamethrowers
a novel
by Rachel Kushner and Amelia Pérez de Villar Herranz
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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. [2]
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Fiction, Brigate rosse, Women artists, Motorcycles, Futurism, Futurism (Literary movement), Amerikanisches Englisch, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-02-02, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Women artists, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Italy, fiction, Brigate rosse., Women artists--fiction, Motorcycles--fiction, Futurism (literary movement)--fiction, Ps3611.u7386 f57 2013, 813/.6Places
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The flamethrowers: a novel
2013, Scribner
in English
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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« Reno a trois passions : la vitesse, la moto et la photographie. Elle débarque à New York en 1977 et s'installe à Soho, haut lieu de la scène artistique, où elle fréquente une tribu dissolue d'artistes rêveurs, qui la soumettent à une éducation intellectuelle et sentimentale. Reno entame alors une liaison avec l'artiste Sandro Valera, fils d'un grand industriel milanais, qu'elle suit en Italie. Tous deux sont bientôt emportés dans le tourbillon de violence des années de plomb. Un roman d'apprentissage virtuose au centre duquel Reno, jeune femme « en quête d'expériences », se construit face au miroir déformant de l'art et du mensonge. »--
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