**New York Times Bestseller
Now a Major Motion Picture
"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous."
--New York Times Book Review**
"Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted
novel."
--MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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.
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.
Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn's
Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented
Ben Fountain's reputation as one of the finest writers of his
generation.
