She later helps Gianni illegally cross the border into France.īack in New York Reno moves out of Sandro's apartment and concentrates on her art. Reno is swept up in part of the Movement of 1977 and participates in riots. Reno also finds Sandro kissing his cousin, Talia, and runs away to Rome with the Valera family mechanic, Gianni, who introduces her to a group of young radicals. However plans for the tour are put on hold when the star of the promotional tour, a professional racer, is kidnapped. Sandro reluctantly decides to accompany Reno and the two spend two weeks with Sandro's family in their villa in Lake Como before the promotional tour is due to begin. The following year the Valera crew ask Reno to join them on a promotional tour in Italy. Reno crashes the bike but is adopted by the Moto Valera crew who help her set a record to become the woman with the fastest racing record in the world. In 1976, with the reluctant approval of Sandro, she takes one of the Moto Valera prototype motorcycles to the Bonneville Salt Flats where she intends to race and then photograph her tracks as part of an art project. She meets an older, more established artist, Sandro Valera, the heir of Moto Valera, an Italian tire and motorcycle company. In 1975, a young art school graduate from Reno moves to New York City hoping to become a successful artist.
It was the subject of a literary spat between the coasts summarized in The New Republic, with the Los Angeles Review of Books attacking the New York Review of Books's review as sexist and unfair. While writing the book, Kushner drew on personal experiences during and after college, as well as her interests in "motorcycles, art, revolution and radical politics." The book was selected as one of the "10 Best Books of 2013" by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. The Flamethrowers follows a female artist in the 1970s. The book was released on Apthrough Scribner.
The Flamethrowers is a 2013 novel by American author Rachel Kushner.
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