Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
About this book
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. 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. Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' halftime show on Thanksgiving, Specialist Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself.
Subjects
- amerikanisches englisch
- armed forces
- dallas cowboys (football team)
- fiction
- fiction, satire
- fiction, war & military
- football
- football and war
- government publicity
- heroes in mass media
- infantry
- iraq war, 2003-2011
- iraq war, 2003-2011, fiction
- large type books
- new york times reviewed
- roman
- texas, fiction
- united states
- united states. army
- united states. army. infantry
- veterans
- veterans, fiction