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Title: Billy Lynns long halftime walk a novel
Author: Ben fountain
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ISBN：9780062644022
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Page: 32
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Binding: paperback
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Commodity weight: 0.8kg
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Summary
A re-release of this award-winning, critically acclaimed novel--featuring a new introductioby the author--just itime for its major motiopicture release, directed by Academy Award nominated director Ang Lee and featuring ViDiesel and Steve Martin
A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at “the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal”--three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught otape by aembedded Fox News crew--has transformed the eight surviving meof Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administratiohas sent them oa media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, othis chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside Destiny’s Child.
Among the Bravos is Spet William Lynn, a nineteen-year-old Texas native. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins otheir lapels and support our troops bumper stickers otheir cars, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the Cowboys’ hard-nosed businessman/owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-agaiCowboys cheerleader; a veteraHollywood 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 brokefather-and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who opened Billy’s mind and died ihis arms at Al-Ansakar.
Over the course of this day, Billy will begito understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms-soldiers both dead and alive. Ithe final few hours before returning to Iraq, Billy will drink and brawl, yearfor home and mourthose missing, face a heart-wrenching decision, and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years.
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About the author
BeFountaiis the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. He has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, among other honors and awards. He and his family live iDallas.
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