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Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
The year is 1977 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 colonised a deserted and industrial SoHo, are squattin ...Show more
Fourteen Days - An Unauthorized Gathering - Short stories by Margaret Atwood (Editor); Candace Bushnell (Contribution by); Sylvia Day (Contribution by); Neil Gaiman (Contribution by); John Grisham (Contribution by); Rachel Kushner (Contribution by); Celeste Ng (Contribution by); Meg Wolitzer (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a surprising and irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from ...Show more
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann; Philip Boehm; Rachel Kushner; Anon
Category: Fiction
Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes--and in the process demolishes--Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utt ...Show more
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past. Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discov ...Show more
Telex from Cuba - US Ed by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestselling debut novel by the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The Flamethrowers*A New York Times bestseller**Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction*Fidel and Raol Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 by Rachel Kushner ed.
Category: Anthologies
In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room, and of ...Show more
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
The year is 1977 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 colonised a deserted and industrial SoHo, are squattin ...Show more
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed.A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empir ...Show more
The Flamethrowers: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
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 m ...Show more
The Flamethrowers - US ED by Rachel Kushner
Category: Fiction
"* Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014* b>/b>*Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction* /b>eno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
Category: Biography
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
Category: Languages and Reference
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes w ...Show more