![]() ![]() grand, intimate, and joyous.” - New York Times Book Review This is the brush-clearing Bush book we’ve been waiting for.” - Harper's Magazine “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a big one. a pitch-perfect ear for American talk…” - The New Yorker “Fountain’s excellent first novel follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day…Through the eyes of the titular soldier, Fountain creates a minutely observed portrait of a society with woefully misplaced priorities. …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 ![]() “A masterful echo of ‘Catch-22,’ with war in Iraq at the center. A bracing, fearless and uproarious satire of how contemporary war is waged and sold to the American public.” - San Francisco Chronicle 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 Timesīilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is not merely good it’s Pulitzer Prize-quality good. ![]() “ inspired, blistering war novel…Though it covers only a few hours, the book is a gripping, eloquent provocation. ![]()
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