ISBN: 9781439142011
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Kushner, Rachel
Año de edición: 2014
Edición: 1
N° Páginas: 416
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas "Brilliant and exhilarating...Kushner fearlessly tackles art, death, and social unrest. In so doing, she has written the sort of relentless and immersive novel that forces the reader to look up and make sure the room hasn't disappeared around her."--Eugenia Williamson "The Boston Globe""Electric...addictive...smart and satisfying."--Kristy Davis "O, the Oprah magazine""I loved Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers."--Jonathan Franzen "The New York Times Book Review""The Flamethrowers is about machines (motorcycles and guns, but also cameras) and the way they revolutionized the last century (its politics and violence, but also its art)...[Kushner's] style is a rare blend of romanticism and historicism--with a sense of precision."--Christian Lorentzen "Bookforum""The Flamethrowers not only harnesses the energies of violent Italian politics; it also converts the intensity of radical New York visual art into shining, whirling prose."--Jimmy So "The Daily Beast""The Flamethrowers unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember. It plays out as if on Imax, or simply higher-grade film stock...Ms. Kushner can really write. Her prose has a poise and wariness and moral graininess that puts you in mind of ....Robert Stone and Joan Didion...[Kushner has] a sensibility that's on constant alert for crazy, sensual, often ravaged beauty...persuasive and moving...provocative."--Dwight Garner "The New York Times""[A] big, rich wonder of a novel... [Kushner's] polychrome sentences...are shot through with all the longing and regret you find in those of Thomas Pynchon, whose influence is all over this novel... a glittering, grave, brutally unsentimental book that's spectacularly written enough to touch greatness."--Craig Seligman "Bloomberg News""[A] brilliant lightning bolt of a novel...The Flamethrowers is an entire world, intimately and convincingly observed, filled with characters whose desires feel true. It is also an uncannily perceptive portrait of our culture--psychologically and philosophically astute, candid about class, art, sex and the position of women--with a deadly accuracy that recalls the young Joan Didion, and that, despite the precisely rendered historical backdrop, gives the story a timeless urgency."--Maud Newton "NPR""A novel of art and politics but also of bikes and speed...exhilarating."-- "Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review""A white-hot ember of a book..."--David Ulin "The Los Angeles Times""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 Reno's--and New York's--age of innocence."--Megan O'Grady "Vogue""Exhilarating, psychologically complex, and perfectly intense, this is a thrilling contemporary novel likely to become a cultural touchstone."--Emily Temple "Flavorwire""In her smash-hit debut, Telex from Cuba (2008), Kushner took on corporate imperialism and revolution, themes that also stoke this knowing and imaginative saga of a gutsy yet naïve artist from Nevada... Kushner, with searing insights, contrasts the obliteration of the line between life and art in hothouse New York with life-or-death street battles in Rome. Adroitly balancing astringent social critique with deep soundings of the complex psyches of her intriguing characters, Kushner has forged an incandescently detailed, cosmopolitan, and propulsively dramatic tale of creativity and destruction."-- "Booklist, STARRED review""Kushner can write like blazes."--Karen Long "The Cleveland Plain Dealer""Life, gazed at with exemplary intensity over hundreds of pages and thousands of sentences precision-etched with detail--that's what The Flamethrowers feels like. That's what it is. And it could scarcely be better. The Flamethrowers is a political novel, a feminist novel, a sexy novel, and a kind of thriller...Virtually every page contains a paragraph that merits--and rew
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Kushner, Rachel
- Editorial: Scribner
- N° Paginas: 416
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
