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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk : A Novel by Ben Fountain, Marc Rubió Rodon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This award-winning satire shares a day in the life of a nineteen-year-old U.S. soldier home on leave from the Iraq War to take part in an NFL halftime show.A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at “the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal”—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare 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. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside the superstar pop group Destiny's Child.Among the Bravos is the Silver Star–winning hero of Al-Ansakar Canal, Specialist William Lynn, a nineteen-year-old Texas native. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and Support Our Troops bumper stickers on their cars, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the Cowboys'hard-nosed businessman/owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again Cowboys cheerleader; a veteran Holly

Who reads Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk : A Novel?

Author

Ben Fountain, Marc Rubió Rodon

Publisher

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611735352

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (21,096 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13