Where I am confused trying to reconcile Ben Fountain’s excellent and satirical book with the Ang Lee movie trailer that just dropped. Billy Lynn’s Long Halft. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain | Books in Review. Back in , I moderated a panel discussion with four accomplished writers at Vietnam Veterans of America’s National Convention in Washington, D.C. The topic was the Vietnam War Novel. The panelists were Robert Olen Butler, Philip Caputo, Larry Heinemann, and Tim O’Brien. · As the news gets worse, I'm reminded of Ben Fountain's novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which follows Billy and his fellow Bravo squad soldiers as they are honored over the course of a day Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain - review Here's a clever and imaginative take on the classic American combat novel, but has its author worshipped too long at the temple of Tom Wolfe? Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is both hilarious and heartbreaking."--Pat Conroy "Ben Fountain's Halftime is as close to the Great American Novel as anyone is likely to come these days--an extraordinary work that captures and releases the unquiet spirit of our age, and will probably be remembered as one of the important books of this decade. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel - Kindle edition by Fountain, Ben. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel.
· Rating details · 29, ratings · 3, reviews. Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk is 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. But Ben Fountain’s inspired, blistering war novel “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” is about a group of special guests at the stadium: eight American soldiers who have become known as the. Ben Fountain's novel BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK received the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award, the PEN/New England Cerulli Award for Excellence in Sports Writing, and the Jesse Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in both the US and the UK (international authors division).
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