![]() Reno, the novel’s narrator, moves from Nevada to New York to become an artist in the tradition of land artists like Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson. ![]() The book is, in a strange way, a love story about a revolution. ![]() And after finishing its 383 pages, I can tell you one thing: The Flamethrowers is not a small novel. Even the very cover of the book - a blond woman with war paint on her cheeks and an X taped across her mouth - implicitly tells you, This is not a small novel. Its title seems to be a way to describe nearly everything about this book: the New York art scene of the seventies, the workers revolution in Italy, the book’s quiet narrator who for one year holds the motorcycle record of The Fastest Woman Alive. The vertigo of walking beneath that levitating mass isn’t unlike the experience of reading Rachel Kushner’s second novel, The Flamethrowers. On a budget of $10 million, the boulder was carried through the Stone Valley Quarry, transported across empty highways - too heavy for the overpasses, too slow for daytime traffic - and hulled through the streets of downtown Los Angeles to a crowd of one thousand onlookers. ![]() It was installed about a year ago by artist Michael Heizer. Above an open walkway at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art stands a 340-ton boulder, hovering over the shadowed heads of visitors. ![]()
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