Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

<p><strong>New York Times Bestseller<br/>Now a Major Motion Picture</strong><br/><br/><strong>Brilliantly done . . . grand intimate and joyous.<br/>--<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>Mothers fathers sons and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.<br/>--MARIA SEMPLE author of <em>Where'd You Go Bernadette</em></strong></p><p>Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents--caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew--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 public support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team slated to be part of the halftime show.</p><p>Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old 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 team's owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again 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.</p><p>Poignant riotously funny and exquisitely heartbreaking <em>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk</em> is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain's reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.</p>