Ben Fountain Bücher

»Mit Billy haben wir den Helden für unsere Zeit gefunden.« The Independent In einem spektakulären Gefecht haben die Jungs eine feindliche Elitetruppe im Irak ausgeschaltet – aufgezeichnet von einem Kamera-Team der Fox News. So wurden die Kämpfer über Nacht zu gefeierten Stars. Was lag näher, als sie heimzuholen und auf eine Victory-Tour durchs Land zu karren? Ben Fountain leuchtet den letzten Tag dieser Show mit 10.000-Watt-Strahlern aus. Ein Riesen-Stadion, wild gewordene Cheerleader, die sich darum reißen, mit den Helden ihren Spaß zu haben, Reiche und Superreiche, die sich im Ruhm der jungen Krieger sonnen, Hollywood-Filmproduzenten, die schon am Skript der Story basteln. Ein Tohuwabohu medialer Übersteigerung und Massenhysterie. Billy Lynn, 19 Jahre alt, treibt wie auf einer Woge durch diesen Tag: Heimweh, Trauer, Alkohol – und eine plötzlich aufkeimende Liebe, die ihn seine Zweifel an diesem Krieg umso schärfer spüren lässt ...

The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

"Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'état, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker, forced out of his beachfront scuba shop by a drug-smuggling operation, turns to hunting colonial Spanish treasure off a remote section of Haiti's southern coast. Misha Variel, a Haitian-American scholar, returns to Haiti to care for her aging parents, and soon stumbles onto an arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S.-government humanitarian aid office. Rookie CIA case officer Audrey O'Donnell finds herself managing a grabbag of intelligence assets in an assignment more difficult and more dubious than she could have imagined. All are embroiled in a game of deceit that culminates in a vicious, zero-sum scramble for survival. Devil Makes Three's depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power, and, most of all, a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant."--

In the safe, comfortable small town where Two lives, where everyone has food, water and a home, no one looks to the ominous black wall on the horizon. But Two cannot ignore the wall and she has questions that fill her and will not be contained. When she is separated from her mother, she is rescued by a strange man and her life begins to unravel as secrets are revealed and the truth about her world is exposed.