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23%OFFBen Fountain - Billy Lynn´s Long Halftime Walk - 9780857864406 - V9780857864406
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Billy Lynn´s Long Halftime Walk

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Description for Billy Lynn´s Long Halftime Walk Paperback. To be adapted into a major motion picture directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 218.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857864406
SKU
V9780857864406
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevaraand 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Billy Lynn´s Long Halftime Walk
This book will be the Catch-22 of the Iraq War. Instead of skewering the military, however, it skewers the society responsible for sending it to war, namely us. This funny, yet totally sobering, dissection of the American way of watching war will have you squirming at the same time you are laughing out loud; Fountain applies the heat of his ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Billy Lynn´s Long Halftime Walk


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