书名：Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 比利林恩的中场战事/漫长的中场休息/半场无战事

作者：Ben Fountain

出版社名称：Ecco

出版时间：2016

语种：英文

ISBN：9780062656568

商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.9 x 19 cm

包装：简装

页数：336 （以实物为准）

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk《漫长的中场休息》是美国作家本·方登的长篇小说，也是李安电影《比利林恩的中场战事》的英文原著。 《漫长的中场休息》一经出版便在《纽约时报》等各大媒体收获如潮好评，李安尚未读完便决定将它拍成电影。并荣获美国国家书评人奖，入选BBC本世纪必读12本小说。本·方登通过一位参加伊拉克战争的19岁少年的眼睛，对战争和纸醉金迷的美国梦进行了辛辣有力的讽刺。正如比利·林恩自己所言，“这感觉其实很奇怪，为这辈子糟糕的一天得到表彰”。 精彩书评：“《漫长的中场休息》实在是高明之作，格局宏大，情节扣人心弦，文风细腻却又令人捧腹。阶级、特权、权力、政治、性、商业、战争中的生死拔河，都在比利?林恩那天的超现实体验中一一登场。”──《纽约时报》 “《漫长的中场休息》是一个关于爱、勇气和忠诚的故事，它讲述一位年轻人终于在这世界上找到了自己的一席之地。这个故事关于军营里的兄弟情，关于他们深厚的感情和做出的牺牲。”——李安New York Times BestsellerNow 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 they’re on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show. Among the Bravos is nineteen-year-old Specialist Billy Lynn. Surrounded by patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and support our troops bumper stickers, he is thrust into the company of the team’s owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a born-again cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Over the course of this day, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years. Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking,Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.

比利·林恩所在的B班士兵在伊拉克赢得了一场3分43秒的短暂胜利。一夜间，他们成了美国的英雄。 每个人都说着“感谢你们”，记者、好莱坞导演蜂拥而至。他们甚至还被邀请参加超级碗的中场秀。 绚丽的烟花在耳边炸响，伴舞身上的亮片在身畔旋转，战争仿佛无比遥远。但有那么一刹那，比利觉得还是打仗好，总比被人当舞台布景挪来挪去爽多了。老天作证，打仗确实烂透了，可他实在看不出这种无聊的和平生活又有什么好的。 这一天，比利·林恩遭遇了人生中的挑战。 A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at “the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal”—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare 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. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside the superstar pop group Destiny’s Child. Among the Bravos is the Silver Star–winning hero of Al-Ansakar Canal, Specialist William Lynn, a nineteen-year-old Texas native. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and Support Our Troops bumper stickers on their cars, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the Cowboys’ hard-nosed businessman/owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again Cowboys cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized pro players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Among these faces Billy sees those of his family—his worried sisters and broken father—and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who opened Billy’s mind and died in his arms at Al-Ansakar. Over the course of this day, Billy will begin to understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms—soldiers both dead and alive. In the final few hours before returning to Iraq, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision, and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years.

Ben Fountain is the author ofBrief Encounters with Che Guevara. He has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, among other honors and awards. He and his family live in Dallas. 本·方登（Ben Fountain），美国作家，1958年生于美国北卡罗来纳州，现居得克萨斯州达拉斯。作品获得过诸多文学奖项，短篇集《与切·格瓦拉的不期而遇》获海明威奖，长篇小说《漫长的中场休息》获美国国家书评人奖。

The men of Bravo are not cold. It’s a chilly and windwhipped Thanksgiving Day with sleet and freezing rain forecast for late afternoon, but Bravo is nicely blazed on Jack and Cokes thanks to the epic crawl of game-day traffic and the limo’s minibar. Five drinks in forty minutes is probably pushing it, but Billy needs some refreshment after the hotel lobby, where overcaffeinated tag teams of grateful citizens trampolined right down the middle of his hangover. There was one man in particular who attached himself to Billy, a pale, spongy Twinkie of a human being crammed into starched blue jeans and fancy cowboy boots. “Was never in the military myself,” the man confided, swaying, gesturing with his giant Starbucks, “but my granddaddy was at Pearl, he told me all the stories,” and the man embarked on a rambling speech about war and God and country as Billy let go, let the words whirl and tumble around his brain terrRist freedom evil nina leven nina leven nina leven troops currj support sacrifice Bush values God Thanks to asswipe luck Billy will have the aisle seat at Texas Stadium, which means he will bear the brunt of these encounters for most of the afternoon. His neck hurts. He slept but poorly last night. Each of those five Jack and Cokes puts him deeper in the hole, but the sight of the stretch limo pulling up to the hotel aroused a bundle of nervous cravings in him, this boat of a snow-white Hummer with six doors to a side and black-tinted windows for maximum privacy. “What I’m talking a-bout!” cried Sergeant Dime as he pounced on the bar, everyone whooping over all the pimp finery, but after destroying all hopes for a quick recovery Billy subsides into a gnarled, secret funk.