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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

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Ben Fountain

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Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. He has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writers’ Award, an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and two Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Awards, among other honors and awards. He and his family live in Dallas, Texas.



 

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Fountain, Ben
  • Hardcover
  • 9780060885595
  • Reader: Oliver Wyman
  • 5/1/2012
  • $25.99 ($28.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
  • E-Book
  • 9780062096821
  • Reader: Oliver Wyman
  • 5/1/2012
  • $20.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Enhanced Edition)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Enhanced Edition)
Ben Fountain
  • E-Book
  • 9780062215239
  • Reader: Oliver Wyman
  • 5/15/2012
  • $22.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: UN
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Enhanced Edition)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Enhanced Edition)
Ben Fountain
  • E-Book
  • 9780062215253
  • Reader: Oliver Wyman
  • 5/15/2012
  • $22.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: UN
 
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
Ben Fountain
  • E-Book
  • 9780061847622
  • 10/13/2009
  • $11.99 ( Can.)
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
Ben Fountain
  • Trade PB
  • 9780060885601
  • 4/10/2007
  • $13.99 ($15.99 Can.)
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is not merely good; it's Pulitzer Prize-quality good . . . A bracing, fearless and uproarious satire of how contemporary war is waged and sold to the American public."


- San Francisco Chronicle
"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous."


- New York Times Book Review
"A masterful echo of 'Catch-22,' with war in Iraq at the center. .a gut-punch of a debut novel.There's hardly a false note, or even a slightly off-pitch one, in Fountain's sympathetic, damning and structurally ambitious novel."


- Washington Post
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a big one. This is the brush-clearing Bush book we've been waiting for."


- Harper's Magazine
"Ben Fountain combines blistering, beautiful language with razor-sharp insight.and has written a funny novel that provides skewering critiques of America's obsession with sports, spectacle, and war."


- Huffington Post
"A brilliantly conceived first novel . . . The irony, sorrow, anger and examples of cognitive dissonance that suffuse this novel make it one of the most moving and remarkable novels I've ever read."


- Nancy Pearl, NPR, Morning Edition
"Seething, brutally funny.[Fountain] leaves readers with a fully realized band of brothers.Fountain's readers will never look at an NFL Sunday, or at America, in quite the same way."


- Sports Illustrated
"Biting, thoughtful, and absolutely spot-on. . . . This postmodern swirl of inner substance, yellow ribbons, and good(ish) intentions is at the core of Ben Fountain's brilliant Bush-era novel."


- The Daily Beast
"The Iraq war hasn't yet had its Catch-22 or Slaughterhouse-Five, but Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a contender. A wicked sense of humor, wonderful writing and, beneath the anger and outrage, a generous heart."


- Tampa Bay Times
"It's a darkly humorous satire about the war at home, absurd and believable at the same time."


- Esquire
"Fountain's strength as a writer is that he not only can conjure up this all-too-realistic-sounding mob, but also the young believably innocent soul for our times, Specialist Billy Lynn. And from the first page I found myself rooting for him, often from the edge of my seat."


- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"[A] masterly . . . tightly structured book [with] a sprawling amount of drama and emotion."


- The Rumpus
"Passionate, irreverent, utterly relevant Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart."


- Margot Livesey
"[T]he shell-shocked humor will likely conjure comparisons with Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five.War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity."


- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[T]he Catch-22 of the Iraq War....Fountain applies the heat of his wicked sense of humor while you face the truth of who we have become. Live one day inside Billy Lynn's head and you'll never again see our soldiers or America in the same way."


- Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn
"Ben Fountain stormed to the front lines of American fiction when he published his astonishing...Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. His first novel will raise his stature and add to his splendid reputation. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is both hilarious and heartbreaking."


- Pat Conroy
"Ben Fountain's Halftime is as close to the Great American Novel as anyone is likely to come these days-an extraordinary work that captures and releases the unquiet spirit of our age, and will probably be remembered as one of the important books of this decade."



- Madison Smartt Bell