Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he’s a YouTube sensation. Tonight, with the nation’s eyes on him, Billy steps out onto the field at the Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving football game. Tomorrow, he must go back to war.

Reviews of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Brilliant … a book for our times * Observer * Astonishingly brilliant — BERNARD CORNWELL * Mail on Sunday * Spectacular … an exhilarating rush * Sunday Times * Funny, damning, devastating * Independent * Vivid, resonant, thundering * Financial Times * A boneshaker * Scotsman * Bracing, fearless, uproarious * San Francisco Chronicle * Lean, direct, muscular … almost certainly the first great novel about the Iraq war * Review 31 * An inspired, blistering war novel * New York Times * The kind of ambition that sent shivers down the spine of the young Tom Wolfe — ROBERT MCCRUM