Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Paperback - 2012
by Fountain, Ben
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Details
- Title Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- Author Fountain, Ben
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco, New York, NY
- Date 2012-11-27
- Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-Z-1d-0939
- ISBN 9780060885618 / 0060885610
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, Satire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011275813
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
A finalist for the National Book Award!
Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents 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 support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside Destiny's Child.
Among the Bravos is 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 Cowboys' owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again Cowboys 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.
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 12/23/2012, Page 28
- Shelf Awareness, 12/28/2012, Page 0
