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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

by Ben Fountain (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a YouTube sensation. Tonight, with the nation's eyes on him, Billy steps out onto the field at the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving football game. Tomorrow, he must go back to war.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Tie-In - Film tie-in
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 12 Jan 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891727
ISBN 13: 9781786891723

Media Reviews
Brilliant . . . a book for our times * * Observer * *
Astonishingly brilliant -- BERNARD CORNWELL * * Mail on Sunday * *
Spectacular . . . an exhilarating rush * * Sunday Times * *
Funny, damning, devastating * * Independent * *
Vivid, resonant, thundering * * Financial Times * *
A boneshaker * * Scotsman * *
Bracing, fearless, uproarious * * San Francisco Chronicle * *
Lean, direct, muscular . . . almost certainly the first great novel about the Iraq war * * Review 31 * *
An inspired, blistering war novel * * New York Times * *
The kind of ambition that sent shivers down the spine of the young Tom Wolfe -- ROBERT MCCRUM
Author Bio
Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and a debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. In addition, he has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart Prizes. He was also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. His fiction has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story and Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and his non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times among other publications. He lives in Dallas, Texas.