National Book Award Finalist (2012)
It's being called a modern day classic by practically everyone! And besides being a finalist for the National Book Award, Ben Fountain took away the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers' Award for this book.
Naturally, with that much press, I had to add it to my reading blitz! I had to slow down and chew this book a little more, but it was WORTH IT! I had to try extremely hard NOT to visualize Jerry Jones as the main antagonist written as "Norm" but it was a nice touch having the Dallas Cowboy's game as the setting.
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