![]() They had slept together, back when she was fresh to New York and fell in in one night with some friends of his at a bar. She is Reno because Ronnie named her this, after the Nevada town she had made a film about. On the wall is a list of titles for Ronnie’s autobiography: Partial View, Obstructed: A Memoir, I Lived (He Died) … Our narrator is not all that she seems, either – ‘Reno’ is not her real name. And Reno finds other signs of self-invention here. Even at home in his New York studio, he is still mythmaking – recasting his earlier fictions as a polite respect for privacy. Ronnie, like many characters in Kushner’s novel, never stops being an artist. ![]() She has come home with the artist Ronnie Fontaine after a dinner party, during which he told an epic tale. ‘Why do you invent … and tell lies?’ So asks Reno, the protagonist of Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers. ![]()
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