![]() ![]() I stood for a long time tracking the slow drift of clouds, great fluffy masses sheared flat along their bottom edges like they were melting on a hot griddle. I took off my helmet and the heavy leather jacket, set them on the ground, and unzipped the vents in my riding pants. ![]() Sweat was pooling along my collarbone, trickling down my back and into my nylon underwear, running down my legs under the leather racing suit. I walked out of the sun, unfastening my chin strap. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner. ![]() Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts-by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. ![]() Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity-artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. “Superb…Scintillatingly alive…A pure explosion of now.”- The New Yorker NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal Vogue O, The Oprah Magazine Los Angeles Times The San Francisco Chronicle The New Yorker Time Flavorwire Salon Slate The Daily Beast ![]()
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