![]() ![]() The novel, however, is written in the past tense, and while the prose is taut enough to prevent it from losing immediacy, the tense sharpens Reno’s naivete with the sense that her innocence will be lost. As Reno rides the motorbike across the salt flats, she goes so fast that she ‘was in an acute case of the present tense’. The sonic rip of a jet is ‘like a giant trowel being dragged through wet concrete’. ![]() It is a stunning opening and Kushner’s prose dazzles with invention. ![]() Her artistic ambition is to capture the essence of speed and the novel opens with her doing land speed trials, in order to document her tyre marks on the salt flats. ‘The allure was partly about speed’, explains Kushner, and Reno loves speed, as a China girl, or riding motorbikes. ![]()
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