THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner (2013) SIGNED+DATED+NYC 1st Ed, 1st Printing

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Signed+Dated+NYC , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $26.99 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba , was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. It was named a best book by the Washington Post Book Book World , the San Francisco Chronicle , the Seattle Times , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , the Christian Science Monitor , and Amazon. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED/PLACED/DATED by the author to full title page. No inscription; full signature + 5.1.13 + NYC only. From an event featuring Rachel Kushner, Hari Kunzru, and Rivka Galchen in New York City on May 1, 2013. BONUSES: The event flyer and store book mark (see photo #12) + copies of four book reviews + a copy of a profile article of Rachel Kutchner are included. Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes USPS Tracking ) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes USPS Tracking ) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $25.95 I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this event featuring Rachel Kushner, Hari Kunzru, and Rivka Galchen in New York City on May 1, 2013. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! Book Description Rachel Kushner’s first novel, Telex from Cuba , was nominated for a National Book Award and reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review . Her second novel, even more ambitious and brilliant, is the riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s—by turns underground, elite, and dangerous. The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro’s family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination. From Bookforum The Flamethrowers is about machines (motorcylces and guns, but also cameras) and the way they revolutionized the last century (its politics and violence, but also its art). In Telex From Cuba , Kushner took up a particular historical episode unwinding in a certain place and presented it from multiple angles. In The Flamethrowers , she's more concerned with a set of ideas and how they move through time, and especially where they end up. —Christian Lorentzen “Exhilarating…it’s impossible not to be pulled in by the author’s sense of the period’s vitality…the novel’s brilliance is in its understanding of art’s relationship to risk, and in its portrait of... read more

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