

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A Novel
Author: Ben Fountain
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/01/2012
Categories: Fiction
Author: Ben Fountain
Narrator: Oliver Wyman
Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/01/2012
Categories: Fiction
Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Billy Lynn was adapted into a feature film directed by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages. His series of essays published in The Guardian on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of The Guardian for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife of 32 years, Sharon Fountain.
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