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A rerelease of this award-winning, critically acclaimed novel just in time because of its major film release, aimed by two-time Academy Prize® victor Ang Lee; screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castelli; and boasting Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, and Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel and Steve Martin. A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents - trapped on tape by an embedded Fox Media staff - has altered the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past fourteen days, the Bush supervision has directed them over a media-intensive nationwide win travel to reinvigorate open public support for the war. Now, upon this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are friends of an Dallas sports team, slated to be part of the halftime show. Among the list of Bravos is Specialist William Lynn, a 19-year-old Texas local. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and "support our troops" bumper stickers on their autos, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the team owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again cheerleader; a experienced Hollywood developer; and supersized pro players looking forward to a vicarious flavor of war. Among these faces Billy perceives those of his family - his worried sisters and shattered daddy - and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who exposed Billy's head and passed away in his hands. During the period of this day, Billy will begin to understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms troops both inactive and alive. In the final few time before time for Iraq, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision, and find out pure love and a bitter knowledge considerably beyond his years. Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain's reputation as one of the finest freelance writers of his technology. Motion picture artwork ©2016 CTMG.
