Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - A Novel

Winner of the National Book Critics'' Circle Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and a National Book Award Finalist Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents--and the video that went viral--transformed the Bravo Squad into America''s most sought-after heroes. Ben Fountain''s novel follows the surviving members of the Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys. Freshman Common Read: Brandeis University

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New York Times Bestseller
Now a Major Motion Picture

“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.”
—MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents—caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. Now they’re on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show.
Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old Specialist Billy Lynn. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and support our troops bumper stickers, he is thrust into the company of the team’s owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Over the course of this day, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years.
Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ben Fountain
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.10.2016
• EAN: 9780062656568
• ISBN: 978-0-06-265656-8
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 106 mm x 191 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Media Tie-In, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor, Literature / General Fiction, First Year Experience / Fiction, First Year Experience / American History & Society