The Flamethrowers

***Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014***
***Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction***
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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 empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left and drawn into a spiral of violence and betrayal.
*The Flamethrowers* is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.
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**Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013**