8. Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2017)
本·芳汀《比利·林恩漫长的中场休息》,(2017年)
Eight rookies from the US army's Bravo squad, fresh from a firefight with Iraqi insurgents, in which one of their fellow soldiers died and another was disabled, are dubbed war heroes by the Fox News cable channel. Their two-week stateside victory tour ends with a halftime salute at a Dallas Cowboys game. Fountain captures the excesses of Texas, American football, business and war, and gives us a memorable narrator in 19-year-old Billy Lynn, with his combination of lust, bedazzlement and post-traumatic stress disorder. "It is sort of weird," he tells a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, "being honoured for the worst day of your life." (Ecco)
在与伊拉克反叛分子交火中,美军一个突击小队的一名士兵牺牲,一名受伤,幸存者中的八名士兵却因为福克斯电视台的宣传而成为国家英雄。他们回到美国本土,进行为期两周的“胜利展演”,最后一站是在达拉斯牛仔队橄榄球比赛的中场进行亮相。芳汀用19岁少年比利·林恩的口吻讲述了这个令人难忘的故事,他的渴望、他的困惑迷茫和他的创伤后应激障碍交织在一起,融合进了无节制发展的德州、橄榄球、商业和战争里面。比利告诉达拉斯牛仔队拉拉队队长:“在你最糟糕的一天获得荣誉,真是疯了!”(Ecco出版社)
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