![]() ![]() ![]() Our guide throughout is a young artist known to us only as Reno, freshly graduated from the University of Nevada and rechristened after her hometown by the boho downtown crowd. Much of its first half roams among the upper echelons of the late '70s New York art world, a macho realm framed by a woman's canny voice. In one sense, Kushner's story is a feverish meditation on losing one's innocence in order to find one's place in the world, but nothing and no one is so easily reducible in her incisive second novel. The book opens with a murder and ends with a disappearance, and in between it roils with uneasy questions about freedom and meaning, power and identity, the grave consequences of politics and the small matter of how we perform our lives for others. Intellectually ambitious and beautifully realized, Rachel Kushner's novel "The Flamethrowers" plays with ideas the way someone might juggle Molotov cocktails. ![]()
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