Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders. Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' halftime show on Thanksgiving, Specialist Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself.
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After a Fox News firefight makes them national heroes, eight surviving Iraq War soldiers are flown home for a media tour that climaxes at a Dallas Cowboys halftime show. One day in nineteen-year-old Billy's head.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was written by Ben Fountain and published in 2012. It was Fountain's debut novel and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Yes. Ang Lee directed a 2016 film adaptation starring Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, and Vin Diesel. The film was notable for its 120-frame-per-second high-frame-rate format and received mixed reviews.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is 336 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
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