Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Hardcover

"[An] inspired, blistering war novel...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

"A masterful echo of 'Catch-22, ' with war in Iraq at the center. ...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

"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a big one. This is the brush-clearing Bush book we've been waiting for."--Harper's Magazine

"For Memorial Day why not turn to a biting, thoughtful, and absolutely spot-on new novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk...This postmodern swirl of inner substance, yellow ribbons, and good(ish) intentions is at the core of Ben Fountain's brilliant Bush-era novel."--The Daily Beast

"A brilliantly conceived first novel . . . The irony, sorrow, anger and examples of cognitive dissonance that suffuse this novel make it one of the most moving and remarkable novels I've ever read."--Nancy Pearl, NPR, Morning Edition

"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

"Darkly comic...Rarely does such a ruminative novel close with such momentum."--Los Angeles Times

"[A] masterly . . . tightly structured book [with] a sprawling amount of drama and emotion."--The Rumpus

"[T]he shell-shocked humor will likely conjure comparisons with Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five...War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[T]he Catch-22 of the Iraq War....Fountain applies the heat of his wicked sense of humor while you face the truth of who we have become. Live one day inside Billy Lynn's head and you'll never again see our soldiers or America in the same way."--Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn

Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' Halftime Show, Specialist William Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this all-American event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself and those around him. 50,000 first printing.