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New York Times BestsellerNow a Major Motion Picture"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous." - New York Times Book Review"Mothers, father, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel." - MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteThree minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents - caught on tape by an embedded 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 this rainy 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.
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Ben Fountain has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writers Award, an O.Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and two Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Awards, among other honors and awards. His fiction has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New York Times Sunday Magazine, among other publications. His reportage on post-earthquake Haiti was nationally broadcast on the radio show This American Life. He and his family live in Dallas, Texas.
