Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Hardcover

Fountain, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060885599 ISBN 13: 9780060885595

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award!

From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" --Karl Marlantes).

A razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq, it explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.

Ben Fountain's remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.

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Review:

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is not merely good; it's Pulitzer Prize-quality good . . . A bracing, fearless and uproarious satire of how contemporary war is waged and sold to the American public."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Fountain's excellent first novel follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day...Through the eyes of the titular soldier, Fountain creates a minutely observed portrait of a society with woefully misplaced priorities. [Fountain has] a pitch-perfect ear for American talk..."--The New Yorker

"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a big one. This is the brush-clearing Bush book we've been waiting for."--Harper's Magazine

"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous."--New York Times Book Review

"For Memorial Day why not turn to a biting, thoughtful, and absolutely spot-on new novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk...This postmodern swirl of inner substance, yellow ribbons, and good(ish) intentions is at the core of Ben Fountain's brilliant Bush-era novel."--The Daily Beast

"Ben Fountain combines blistering, beautiful language with razor-sharp insight...and has written a funny novel that provides skewering critiques of America's obsession with sports, spectacle, and war."--Huffington Post

"A brilliantly conceived first novel . . . The irony, sorrow, anger and examples of cognitive dissonance that suffuse this novel make it one of the most moving and remarkable novels I've ever read."--Nancy Pearl, NPR, Morning Edition

"Seething, brutally funny...[Fountain] leaves readers with a fully realized band of brothers...Fountain's readers will never look at an NFL Sunday, or at America, in quite the same way."--Sports Illustrated

"Biting, thoughtful, and absolutely spot-on. . . . This postmodern swirl of inner substance, yellow ribbons, and good(ish) intentions is at the core of Ben Fountain's brilliant Bush-era novel."--The Daily Beast

"The Iraq war hasn't yet had its Catch-22 or Slaughterhouse-Five, but Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a contender... A wicked sense of humor, wonderful writing and, beneath the anger and outrage, a generous heart."--Tampa Bay Times

Book Description:

A new edition to tie in with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's film adaptation

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0060885599
• ISBN 13: 9780060885595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307