Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain audiobook

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

By Ben Fountain
Read by Oliver Wyman

HarperAudio, Ecco, HarperCollins

Unabridged

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    ISBN: 9781441710246

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    ISBN: 9781441710260

Runtime: 11.65 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

Winner of the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

An Oprah Pick of Best Thanksgiving Books of All time

Shortlisted for the 2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize

A 2013 Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book for Fiction

A 2013 Chautauqua Prize Finalist

One of the 2012 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction

A 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

A 2012 Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Fiction

A 2012 Washington Post Best Book for Fiction

One of the 2012 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books for Fiction

A 2012 Kansas City Star Top 100 Book for Fiction

A 2012 Library Journal Best Book: Top Ten

A 2012 ALA Notable Book for Fiction

Selected for the May 2012 Indie Next List

A Kirkus Reviews “New and Notable Title”, May 2012

A re-release of this award-winning, critically acclaimed novel just in time for its major motion picture release, directed by Two-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee, screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castelli and featuring Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel and Steve Martin.

A ferocious firefight 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. 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 a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show.

Among the Bravos is 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 team owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized pro players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Among these faces Billy sees those of his family--his worried sisters and broken father—and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who opened Billy’s mind and died in his arms.

Over the course of this day, Billy will begin to understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms-soldiers both dead and alive. In the final few hours before returning to Iraq, 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.

Motion Picture Artwork ©2016 CTMG.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a big one. This is the brush-clearing Bush book we’ve been waiting for.” —Harper’s
“The best book about the Iraq War and Destiny’s Child that you’ll ever read.” —Entertainment Weekly
“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
“Employing intricate detail and feverish cinematography, Fountain’s vividly written novel is an allegorical hero’s journey, a descent into madness, and a mirror held up to this society’s high-definition TV reality. Tragically unhinged, it also rings completely, hilariously true.” —Library Journal
“[An] inspired, blistering war novel…Mr. Fountain…sets up this Thanksgiving game as an artfully detailed microcosm of America in general, and George W. Bush’s Texas in particular, during the Iraq war. Though it covers only a few hours, the book is a gripping, eloquent provocation. Class, privilege, power, politics, sex, commerce, and the life-or-death dynamics of battle all figure in Billy Lynn’s surreal game day experience.” —New York Times
“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
“Though the shellshocked humor will likely conjure comparisons with Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five, the debut novel by Fountain focuses even more on the cross-promotional media monster that America has become than it does on the absurdities of war…War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“It’s a darkly humorous satire about the war at home, absurd and believable at the same time.” —Esquire
“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
“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
“While Fountain undoubtedly knows his Graham Greene and Paul Theroux, his excursions into foreign infernos have an innocence all their own. In between his nihilistic descriptions, a boyishness keeps peeking out, cracking one-liners, and admiring the amazing if benighted scenery.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“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
“Darkly comic…Rarely does such a ruminative novel close with such momentum.” —Los Angeles Times
“A masterful gut-punch of a debut novel…Catch-22 is about to be updated for a new era. In his immortal classic, Heller was lampooning the military’s attempt to bureaucratize the horror of World War II. In Fountain’s razor-sharp, darkly comic novel—a worthy neighbor to Catch-22 on the bookshelf of war fiction—the focus has shifted from bureaucracy to publicity, reflecting corresponding shifts in our culture…There’s hardly a false note, or even a slightly off-pitch one, in Fountain’s sympathetic, damning, and structurally ambitious novel.” —Washington Post
“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.” —Daily Beast

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Author Bio: Ben Fountain

Author Bio: Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

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Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 11.65
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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