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...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" --Karl Marlantes).
A razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq, it explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.
Ben Fountain's remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
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."
