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|title=The Flamethrowers

|sort=Flamethrowers, The

|publisher=Harvill Secker

|date=June 2013

|summary=Set in 1970s New York and to a lesser extent Italy, ''The Flamethrowers'' is a beguiling and compulsively readable novel written with great style. A young girl is caught up in the art world of dreamers and raconteurs before coming face to face with reality.

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Set mainly in New York's art district in the late 1970s, Rachel Kushner's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells the story of a young girl, known only to the reader as Reno, after the city she comes from. She's a girl who loves motorbikes and photography, but struggles to find her place in the New York art scene. When she falls for the estranged son, Sandro, of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot control.