The Flamethrowers

The Flamethrowers

2013 • 432 pages

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Average rating3.4

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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.

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This book is just so god damn cool.

March 8, 2014

My second-favorite novel named The Flamethrowers.

I'd be curious to read more of Kushner's work, but if she ever publishes a novel called Hopscotch or The Seven Madmen or The Mad Toy, I'll probably skip it.

February 18, 2018