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Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award, was simply named a Top Ten Book of 2013 from the Ny Times Book Review and among Period magazine’s top ten fiction books. Kushner’s first story, Telex from Cuba, was also a finalist for a National Book Award and was examined on the cover of The Brand New York Times Book Review. The Flamethrowers, much more formidable and amazing, may be the captivating tale of the young performer and the sides she confronts in New York and Rome in the middle-1970s—by becomes subterranean, elite, and dangerous.The year is 1975 and Reno—so-named due to the host to her birth—has arrived at New York intent on switching her desire for bikes and pace into artwork. Her appearance correlates by having an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a commercial and empty SoHo, are holding steps while in the East Village, and are blurring the line between art and life.