4K/UHD A green circle with a white checkmark in the center. Not the people wining and dining him and the rest of the squad – they are out for all they can get at the soldiers’ expense. “Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”. Wow. ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Open Casting Call in Atlanta, Georgia “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” was the Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2015. Here in the United States, it's football season. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Really? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2015. Footage of the firefight was uploaded by a US journalist and the ensuing viral sensation quickly made celebrities out of Billy and his fellow soldiers. But it does make the book drag a bit. I really wouldn’t blame them. You keep waiting for the book's little murmurings of plot to build to a narrative flow, and that never q. Fountain has a wonderfully engaging writing style, it bubbles along, mixing philosophical musings with pop cultural ephemera, and an eye for the wry telling detail. Wow. I have read a lot of fiction and nonfiction about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as veterans' homecoming experience. Five stars? I’d happily fall in love with a book that was trying to capture and examine our contemporary reality. There is not one section in the book where I couldn’t see the author’s clumsy hands all over each page. After surviving a bloody skirmish in Iraq, nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn returns to Texas a national hero. It's like the author had a decent idea and wanted to say something about America and terrorism and the oughts and football and sexism, etc., but the fact is that anything you could say about any of that stuff is so obvious, so overdone, so already laden with over-the-top symbolism, that the only thing you can do while reading it--other than tip your hat to a good many propulsive and show-offy sentences--is nod your head and/or roll your eyes. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Well, for one, nothing happens in this book -- it is one comic but moving set piece after another all taking place over the course of a single football game. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate support for the war. “Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”, “If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.”, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2012), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction), Possible duplicate for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, An Iraq veteran's response to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, #129 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, 2) XXL through to End. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and Support Our Troops bumper stickers, he is thrust into the company of the Cowboys' owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again Cowboys cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized players eager for a vicarious taste of war. I have read many fictionalized accounts of war and I have to say that this was one I could really FEEL ... although the actual war account in the story lasts all of three minutes and forty-three seconds and is told through a flashback. Billy Lynn was conspicuously courageous amongst them, with a philosopher-sergeant 'Shroom' dying in his arms. Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football He lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas, Texas. And granted, if I would've thought of it, I might've tried to make it work, might've let myself be seduced. It feels weirdly unpatriotic to like the Iraq War book written by a non-vet better than the one written by a guy who was there, but there it is: I like this better than, Bravo squad was in a firefight with Iraqi insurgents at a place called Al-Ansakar Canal. Please try your request again later. Well, for one, nothing happens in this book -- it is one comic but moving set piece after another all taking place over the course of a single football game. Billy Lynn was conspicuously courageous amongst them, with a philosopher-sergeant 'Shroom' dying in his arms. Paul Fussell once said (and this is a fairly loose paraphrase from memory) that it was impossible to speak clearly about war because the true facts of war are so gruesome and ghastly that people will turn from the page in horror unless you use a variety of literary devices to soften the blow. Fantastic and incisive social commentary about war and those take advantage of it--about the vast gulf between what war really is and what it's made out to be. Ben Fountain's satirical debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012), follows nineteen-year-old specialist Billy Lynn after his heroics at the Battle of Al-Ansakar Canal make him famous. It’s probably a bad idea for the US military to allow the troops overseas to get the news from back home. I read this because it is a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. ― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. we meet the once in a life time war hero kid (19 year old Billy), his heroism is acknowledged only due to the fact that his Bravo company's engagement in Iraq was filmed and broadcast on Fox network. There are few things less enjoyable than poorly-written satire, and there are few time periods less interesting to set a book in than the very recent (past decade or so) past. The three or four critical minutes were captured on film by an embedded Fox News crew and broadcast world-wide, making the Bravo Squad, and particularly Billy, heroes. And, I wasn't really sure for the first half or so if I was enjoying it or not. Why only three stars? Von Pieke Biermann in die deutsche Sprache übersetzt, wurde er im Jahr 2013 vo… Dead fellow soldier. Along with his comrades in Bravo Company, he is paraded around the country and hailed as a symbol of American hope and valour. The Bravo Squad of young soldiers is being celebrated at a football game on Thanksgiving, and we see this game through the eyes of young Billy Lynn, who is a bit disenchanted with the whole idea of war and America. Having a somewhat loose connection to the military lifestyle, I felt an instant connection to this book that goes deeper than a cursory glance just across the surface. At one point the author even makes a comment about fighting so Nixon could have his war...as if Nixon wasn't the president who got the US *out* of southeast Asia. I found this book very hard to get into, it gave me little or no motivation to keep going. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The soldiers are tapped to take a publicity tour culminating in a half-time extravaganza at a Thanksgiving game of the Dallas Cowboys. Die irre Heldentour des Billy Lynn (englischer Originaltitel: Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk) ist ein Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Ben Fountain, der die Erlebnisse von Soldaten einer kleinen Militäreinheit schildert, die während des Irakkriegs vom Pentagon auf eine Propagandareise durch die USA geschickt werden und danach in den Krieg zurückkehren. Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel 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. The Bravo squad of soldiers which achieved special bravery in their accomplishments in a meaningless sortie gets its five minutes of fame through some footage on the evening news, and the brass and politicians seize on its propaganda opportunities. This book manages to combine both of these for a result that’s just as crappy as you’d imagine. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. The story focuses on one of the final days of the victory tour - Bravo are welcomed as guests of honour at a Dallas. Stoked by the prospect of watching a new Ang Lee adaptation just days away and thanks to its curiously scored and edited trailer, hinting at some Narrative within narratives, I snapped up this remarkable source book, an imagined memoir-of-sorts by Ben Fountain-an author I hadn't known about, but what a talent! This is classic literature that will stand the test of time; classic in the sense that it joins a long list of stories about the damage done to young men by a foreign war and the difficulties they face in re-adapting to their homeland. Cheney needs this PR to help persuade the country that “the insurgency is on its last legs”, and Bush can use some help for the next election to prove that he is effectively kicking ass in response to the affront of 9/11. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It is early in the latest Iraq war. There’s a lot of thinking that goes on. If the military ever decides that the pack of assholes back in America isn’t worth fighting and dying for, we could find all that hardware aiming back at us someday. He is also the window through which we get a hard look at the reality of millennial America. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk features no more than a few glimpses of battle. The characters are stereotypes and as such they fall flat, which is a shame, because the story itself is a creative and important one to tell. undefined out of 5 stars with 0 reviews. This novel, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" , written by author Ben Fountain and narrated by Oliver Wyman, evoked a multitude of emotions in me. May 1st 2012 Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The story focuses on one of the final days of the victory tour - Bravo are welcomed as guests of honour at a Dallas Cowboys football game and a Hollywood producer attempts to broker a movie deal to bring their act of bravery to the big screen. I have this fear that someday the service men and women in places like Iraq and Afghanistan will finally snap after seeing the people they’ve pledged to defend are less interested in what they’re doing than TV reality shows and celebrity gossip. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. [1] [2] [3] The novel chronicles the experience of a group of Iraq War veterans who are hailed as heroes and sent on a victory tour following their engagement in an intense firefight that happened to be caught on camera. This story is more about the members of Bravo Squad.... who after engaging in a fight with insurgents in Iraq and los. Some topics for consideration: the commercialization of patriotism, the trauma of war, the female orgasm. It's the start of the season, and the NFL is already beset by scandal. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award! be the first! SPC Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old, silver-star-recipient and bona fide war hero, is about to be honored at the Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving home game, along with seven other members of Bravo company, for bravery in a battle that had the benefit of a Fox news crew with plenty of film. Sometimes a book just knocks you for a loop when you're not expecting it. Well, that didn't take very long. I'm not saying that it's not a five star idea or that there aren't five star sentences or five star phrases or descriptions or whatever inside. A great book — well crafted, well written, and well worth the time. This is classic literature that will stand the test of time; classic in the sense that it joins a long list of stories about the damage done to young men by a foreign war and the difficulties they face in re-adapting to their homeland. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award! Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Maybe because I had already read a lot, and from the perspective of veterans, I didn't feel this novel added anything new. "THE DALLAS COWBOYS WELCOME HEROS OF AL-ANSAKAR CANAL!!!!!!!" It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Politically, I absolutely agree with the themes highlighted (to death) in this book about the calculations behind going to war, about our society’s inane ‘priorities,’—everything. The writing is just brilliant. His series of essays published in The Guardian on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of The Guardian for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. He is also the window through which we get a hard look at the reality of millennial America. A brilliant exploration of the dissonance and disconnect between military life and civilian life in a time of war. Novels Novels. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Among the Bravos is Specialist Billy Lynn. And I found the repetition tedious and thought it detracted from the book. But also? Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk is a razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq. Please try again. Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. Do you really mean to say that this book deserves THE BEST SCORE POSSIBLE? But if the over-the-top stereotyping of everyone and everything is meant to be a satire, it doesn’t quite succeed. Today, during the final hours of the tour, they arrive at Texas Stadium, guests of honour as the Dallas Cowboys take on the Chicago Bears in a nationally broadcast Thanksgiving Day … For this? It made BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK real to me, yet I did have trouble initially getting into the story, because it’s told as much through flashbacks, bouncing in time from the present to the past, that I struggled initially with the author’s choice of storytelling. The biggest consequence of this is that the female characters are treated in a way that isn’t even quite understandable for a teenage boy—does Billy really need to ogle his sister in a bikini? I almost didn't read it because the early reviews I had seen, while immensely superlative, made me believe this was a book about soldiers at war. The narrative alternates brilliantly between the absurdities in the promotion tour and attempts of the soldiers to take advantage of the perks of booze, food, and prospects of sex to help relieve their flashbacks of the horrors of combat and recent deaths of two of their squad. And what about the man who is trying to sell their story of fight and survival to tinsel town – where do his loyalties lie (if not, ultimately, to himself). Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare 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. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award! De hoofdrollen worden vertolkt door Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker en Garrett Hedlund The writer is undeniably talented. we meet the once in a life time war hero kid (19 year old Billy), his heroism is acknowledged only due to the fact that his Bravo company's engagement in Iraq was filmed and broadcast on Fox network. Something went wrong. 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