Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents--caught on tape by a Fox News crew--has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. On Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show. Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old Specialist Billy Lynn. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their ...
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Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents--caught on tape by a Fox News crew--has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. On Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show. Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old Specialist Billy Lynn. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and support our troops bumper stickers, he is thrust into the company of the team's owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues. Over the course of the day, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far 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 writers of his generation. The English-language edition was turned into a major motion picture in 2016. Los ocho supervivientes del escuadr???n Bravo se enfrentan al ???ltimo tramo del Tour de la Victoria, tras protagonizar en Irak una heroica haza???a b???lica que se hizo viral en YouTube y enardeci??? el ???nimo patri???tico de todo un pa???s. Despu???s de dos semanas de ba???os de multitudes y de ser recibidos con pompa por el presidente Bush en la Casa Blanca, ser???n agasajados por la turba enfervorecida del Texas Stadium, en el coraz???n de la Am???rica m???s profunda y conservadora, dos d???as antes de volver al frente. El soldado raso Billy Lynn, de diecinueve a???os, h???roe de la haza???a de Al Ansakar, en la que ha perdido a su mejor amigo, se debate entre la fascinaci???n del ardor yanqui que suscita entre sus compatriotas y el terror???fico e inminente retorno a Irak. El multimillonario due???o de los Texas Cowboys, Norman Oglesby, ser??? su maestro de ceremonias en esta recepci???n en la que compartir???n escenario con Beyonc??? y las Destiny's Child en el espect???culo de la media parte. En su viaje por las entra???as del American dream, los Bravo se cruzar???n con magnates del petr???leo, un productor de Hollywood que planea hacer una pel???cula con su historia protagonizada por Hilary Swank, cheerleaders neum???ticas que cortan la respiraci???n, jugadores de f???tbol americano de dimensiones sobrehumanas y una pl???tora de fan???ticos que vomitar???n su fervor nacional sobre los atribulados soldados. La primera novela de Ben Fountain, ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award y finalista del National Book Award, fue recibida con gran entusiasmo por cr???tica y lectores cuando se public??? en 2012, y se convirti??? en un best seller. Con un lenguaje vigoroso, repleto de met???foras inolvidables propias del mejor Tom Wolfe, Fountain compone un feroz retrato de la reciente guerra de Irak y una s???tira devastadora e hilarante del American way of life. En noviembre de 2016, se estrena la versi???n cinematogr???fica del libro, dirigida por el oscarizado Ang Lee y protagonizada por Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, y el debutante Joe Alwyn en el papel de Billy Lynn.
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