Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

New York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous. New York Times Book Review Mothers, father, 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.