The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom o...
New York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture
"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous." --New York Times Book Review
"Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel." --MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Three 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...
New York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture
"Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous."