![]() ![]() ![]() The climax of this promotional tour, and the meat of this novel, is their appearance at the Dallas Cowboys stadium as part of the halftime show on a Thanksgiving afternoon. ![]() Billy Lynn is a member of Bravo Company, one of eight US servicemen who emerge unscathed from a firefight to be brought home by the Bush administration for a victory lap. So what's it about? The short answer is Iraq. He's now in his mid-50s and this is his first published novel. Wolfe and the New Journalists plugged American prose into the mains, giving it an intravenous shot of a dangerously addictive treatment.īen Fountain is a former Texas lawyer who caused a mild sensation in 2006 with a collection of stories, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: great reviews, comparisons with Graham Greene and John le Carré, and the accolade of a Malcolm Gladwell study of "late bloomers" in the New Yorker. but it never happened." Instead, the man in the white suit stepped into the breach himself to create "the non-fiction novel". Wolfe's competitive writer's fear was that "some enterprising novelist was going to come along and do this whole wondrous scene with one gigantic daring bold stroke. ![]() T here's a memorable passage in Tom Wolfe's hyperactive self-advertisement of 1973, The New Journalism, where he describes 60s New York as "a hulking carnival… pandemonium with a big grin on". ![]()
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