‘Double y’im dees’
Christopher Tayler: Ben Fountain, 2 August 2012
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain.
Canongate, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2012,978 0 85786 438 3 Show More
by Ben Fountain.
Canongate, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2012,
“... of Fountain’s long apprenticeship is that his 1970s-vintage literary models – among them Robert Stone, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer in Vietnam-era reportage mode – turned out to be pretty useful for a writer hitting his stride at the start of the 21st century. His main adjustments concern mood. For the pill-popping nerviness of Didion and ... ”