Last Flag Flying: A Novel - Tapa dura

"Darryl has once again captured the camaraderie and complexity of male bonding, as he did so brilliantly in The Last Detail. Three familiar characters, now some thirty years later, with a dubious history and an undesirable task ahead of them are what dominate the fascinating and satisfying story in Last Flag Flying."-Bryan Cranston "Ponicsan delivers an irreverent, acerbic, but nonetheless poignant look at the true nature of loyalty. Recommend both novels and the movie."-Booklist

This is a lead title. Tie-in edition to the movie of the same name directed by Richard Linklater and starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne. The movie will open the New York Film Festival as its world premiere and open theatrically on November 17. Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival and selection committee chair said of the movie: "Last Flag Flying is many things at once - infectiously funny, quietly shattering, celebratory, mournful, meditative, intimate, expansive, vastly entertaining, and all-American in the very best sense," and the same is true of the book it's based on. The sequel to the cult novel that one critic called "the first underground triumph of the 70s and that was the basis for the now classic movie by Hal Ashby (screenplay by Robert Towne) starring Jack Nicholson that critics raved with Vincent Canby of the New York Times calling it "a new kind of anti-comedy." Will resonate with anyone even remotely acquainted with the original book: assembles to same beloved characters Billy Bad-Ass Buddusky, Mule Mulhall, and Larry Meadows thirty-four years after the original "last detail" to reprise the same journey (from Norfolk, VA, to Portsmouth, NH) during a different war (Iraq, not Vietnam) but with similar antiwar themes and is as funny, tender, profane, and provocative as the original. We are reissuing The Last Detail in paperback at the same time. Author previously self-published an edition at The Wright Press in 2005.