Scintillatingly alive... It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures -- James Wood - New Yorker

Kushner is rapidly emerging as a thrilling and prodigious novelist -- Jonathan Franzen

One of the most thrilling and high-octane literary experiences I have had in ages -- Colum McCann - Sunday Independent

It's so good, it's a little frightening… it makes any fretting over the state of the novel look plain silly - Guardian

An adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel - Sunday Telegraph

Unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember - New York Times

An ambitious and serious American novel. The sentences are sharp and gorgeously made. The scope is wide. The political and the personal are locked in a deep and fascinating embrace - Colm Tóibín

Dazzling... The Flamethrowers is a virtuoso performance; a ride of ache and pleasure, handled with pinpoint command - The Times

This glittering novel is both carefully structured and exhilarating - Daily Telegraph

Rachel Kushner’s fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground - Vanity Fair

A bright burning flame of a novel - Spectator

The Flamethrowers is a strange, fascinating beast of a novel, brimming with ideas, and sustained by the muscular propulsion of Kushner’s prose… Kushner emerges as a wildly gifted artist filling a sketchbook with thrilling, eye-catching scenes -- Robert Collins - Sunday Times

There is an exhilarating freedom to Kushner’s writing… Taut, vividly intelligent prose -- David Wolf - Prospect

Sparky and inventive...a riot of a novel - Daily Mail

Ms Kushner’s kaleidoscopic prose carries the novel’s shifts in location and person, and the fast-paced rhythm harnesses the thrill of adventure - Economist

Swells with a daunting bravado - Irish Times