The Flamethrowers

Scintillatingly alive... It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures -- James Wood * New Yorker * Kushner is rapidly emerging as a thrilling and prodigious novelist -- Jonathan Franzen One of the most thrilling and high-octane literary experiences I have had in ages -- Colum McCann * Sunday Independent * It's so good, it's a little frightening it makes any fretting over the state of the novel look plain silly * Guardian * An adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel * Sunday Telegraph * Unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember * New York Times * 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 * Colm Tibn * Dazzling... The Flamethrowers is a virtuoso performance; a ride of ache and pleasure, handled with pinpoint command * The Times * This glittering novel is both carefully structured and exhilarating * Daily Telegraph * Rachel Kushners fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground * Vanity Fair * A bright burning flame of a novel * Spectator * The Flamethrowers is a strange, fascinating beast of a novel, brimming with ideas, and sustained by the muscular propulsion of Kushners prose Kushner emerges as a wildly gifted artist filling a sketchbook with thrilling, eye-catching scenes -- Robert Collins * Sunday Times * There is an exhilarating freedom to Kushners writing Taut, vividly intelligent prose -- David Wolf * Prospect * Sparky and inventive...a riot of a novel * Daily Mail * Ms Kushners kaleidoscopic prose carries the novels shifts in location and person, and the fast-paced rhythm harnesses the thrill of adventure * Economist * Swells with a daunting bravado * Irish Times *

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 Mdicis 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.