![]() ![]() Her talent, her honesty, her "cake box appeal" and her love of speed she comes by naturally. It is, she says, "an irony but a fact that a person had to move to New York City first, to become an artist of the West." The two men she soon falls for are both artists with "a palpable sense of their own future, who constructed plans and then followed them," whereas she lives in such a way that "chance came blowing in." For her name, her work, her entry into the NYC art scene, her shiny new Valera motorcycle and her unwitting role in clandestine Italian politics, she is beholden to men. "Enchantment," she says, describing her dashed hopes after a one-night stand, "means to want something and also to know, somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren't going to get it."Īfter graduating from art school, Reno has sold her motorcycle and left Nevada to seek her fortune. ![]() Its young artist narrator, Reno, is wistful and brutally candid at once, with a voice like a painting - lush and evocative - but also like a scythe. ![]() Rachel Kushner's brilliant lightning bolt of a novel, The Flamethrowers, straddles two revolutions: the squatter-artist colonization of Manhattan's SoHo in the 1970s, and the rise of Italy's radical left during the same period. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Flamethrowers Author Rachel Kushner ![]()
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