A big congratulations goes out to Mr. Ben Fountain who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his masterpiece (my opinion), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
Billy Lynn received heaps of recognition last year - it was a National Book Award finalist and a NY Times 100 Notable Book - and now the publishing world has agreed.
If you haven't read it yet (get on it!), it is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. It is smart and funny and heart-wrenching, and does for the Iraq war what Catch-22 did for Vietnam.
Ok, I'll stop ranting, but for realz, add it to your TBR piles.
- Annie
I just saw this listed in the tournament of books some website is featuring. http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/
Posted by: Jenne | March 5, 2013 at 03:41 PM
This is a wonderful book,Annie is so right in her description of it. I am glad it is being given awards, more people need to read it.
Posted by: L.collier | March 2, 2013 at 08:50 PM