The Flamethrowers

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller and most highly acclaimed novel of Spring 2013, the “scintillatingly alive” (James Wood, The New Yorker) story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s—“electric, addictive, smart, and satisfying” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

The year is 1975 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 int…