Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Author(s): Ben Fountain
His whole nation is celebrating what is the worst day of his life. Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery is a YouTube sensation and the Bush Administration has sent them on a nationwide Victory Tour. During the final hours of the tour Billy will mix with the rich and powerful, endure the politics and praise of his fellow Americans - and fall in love. He'll face hard truths about life and death, family and friendship, honour and duty. Tomorrow he must go back to war.
Product Information
To be adapted into a major motion picture directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2013.
Brilliant: funny, involving, warm-hearted, a book for our times - Rachel Cook Observer A fierce, exhilarating novel about the Iraq war ... And it is terrific: eloquent and angry, funny and poignant - Theo Tait Guardian 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 San Francisco Chronicle Astonishingly brilliant ... a scathing portrait of America, lightened by the humour of Billy and a beguiling born-again cheerleader. The writing crackles off the page- Bernard Cornwell I love this. It's a modern day classic - Nick Hornby
General Fields
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books
- : 0.22
- : 01 December 1899
- : 129mm X 198mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 320
- : Main
- : Paperback
- : Ben Fountain
