Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: Billy Lynn and his Bravo squad mates have become heroes thanks to an embedded Fox News crew&#x2019;s footage of their firefight against Iraqi insurgents. During one day of their bizarre Victory Tour, set mostly at a Thanksgiving Day football game at Texas Stadium, they&#x2019;re wooed by Hollywood producers, smitten by Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, and share a stage at halftime with Beyonce. Guzzling Jack and Cokes and scuffling with fans, the Bravos are conflicted soldiers. &#x201C;Okay, so maybe they aren&#x2019;t the greatest generation,&#x201D; writes debut author (!) Ben Fountain, who manages a sly feat: giving us a maddening and believable cast of characters who make us feel what it must be like to go to war. Veering from euphoria to dread to hope,Billy Lynnis a propulsive story that feels real and true. With fierce and fearless writing, Fountain is a writer worth every accolade about to come his way.--Neal Thompson