Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Book • 2012

Mentioned by

Recommended by

Mina Kimes

as a trenchant exploration of football culture and American theater.

Mentioned by

Eric Robinson

as an example of enduring writing about the soldiering experience.

Mentioned by

John Plotz

Ben Fountain

's debut novel, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

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