Last Flag Flying, Darryl Ponicsan
Last Flag Flying, Darryl Ponicsan
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Last Flag Flying

Author: Darryl Ponicsán

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 09/05/2017


Synopsis

This Sequel to the Acclaimed Cult Novel Is Now a Major Motion Picture

Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire—and of the mayhem that ensues—it was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson. Last Flag Flying, set thirty-four years after the events of The Last Detail, brings together the same beloved characters—Billy Bad-Ass Buddusky, Mule Mulhall, and Meadows—to reprise the same journey but under very different circumstances.

Now middle-aged, Meadows seeks out his former captors in their civilian lives to help him bury his son, a Marine killed in Iraq, in Arlington National Cemetery. When he learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of his son's death, he decides, with the help of the two others, to transport him home to Portsmouth. And so begins the journey, centered around a solemn mission but, as in the first book, a protest against injustice and celebration of life too, at once irreverent, funny, profane, and deeply moving. Last Flag Flying is now a major movie, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

My review for this book was published by Library Journal on August 31, 2017: Two Navy lifers and the hapless sailor they escorted to prison reunite nearly 35 years later in this sequel to the underground classic The Last Detail, first published in 2005 and now rereleased alongside a film adaptation d......more

Goodreads review by Jay

I read Ponicsan’s earlier book, “The Last Detail”, a few years ago, but I can’t say I recalled the details. This is the sequel to that book, taking place a few decades down the road. Prior to reading this, I read some of the reviews, many of which complained about the re-animating of one of the char......more

Goodreads review by Joe

This is not a very good book. The movie looks to be completely different in tone and substance. This is just depressing and pointless. I can't really recommend it to anyone but it is not the worst book I've read recently.......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Despite the clumsiness with which Ponicsan revives Buddusky, who was supposedly killed in "The Last Detail, "Last Flag Flying" is a great reunion of these three classic characters. Since "The Last Detail" was his first novel, and this was written over 40 years later, Ponicsan's writing is more finely......more