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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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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award "Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous." —New York Times Book Review From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" —Karl Marlantes). 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 in Texas Stadium, 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 cour
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- Author
- Ben Fountain, Marc Rubió Rodon
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060885595
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction
- Rating
- 3.81 / 5 (21,096 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print)) (2012)
- Billy Lynn en hoe hij de rust overleefde (2012)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2017)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2013)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel (2016)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Film Tie-In) (2016)
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