Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print): Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Hardcover)

from gpaisley

Truly amazing book. Billy Lynn is a soldier. He is one of eight soldiers of "Bravo Squad," ordinary army grunts in Iraq who one day find themselves in a brief but fierce battle that happens to be captured by their embedded reporter on video. The film of their battle makes them instant "heroes," s...

from GarySeverance

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a novel that will have different meanings to military veterans and non-veterans. Of course, every novel has different meanings to every reader just as Proust wrote in In Search of Lost Time. Once the writer publishes his novel, the great French author stated, th...

from porch_reader

This book has gotten some attention in year-end "Best of" lists, and after reading it, I think that attention is well-deserved. It takes place on a single day, Thanksgiving 2004, at Texas Stadium. The men of Bravo are home from the Iraq War on a Victory Tour after their heroic performance in a fi...

from LynnB

It took me a while to get into this book, but I am glad I stuck with it. I'm not American, a football fan or someone who particularly likes books about soldiers and war. But this novel made me think, and I took several messages from it: to those who aren't soldiers and have no soldiers close to t...

from creighley

Set in Texas during the war in Iraq, this novel explores the huge gap between the war at home and the real one abroad. The focus is on the surviving members of Bravo Squad at one their exhaustive media stops in Dallas during their "VictoryTour." Remarkable.