A Big Enough Lie

By Eric Bennett

Awaiting a TV talk show appearance, John Townley is quaking with dread. He has published a best-selling memoir about the Iraq War, a page-turner climaxing in atrocity. In a green room beyond the soundstage, he braces himself to confront the charismatic soldier at the violent heart of it. But John has never actually seen the man before--nor served in Iraq, nor the military. Even so, and despite the deception, he knows his fabricated memoir contains stunning truths.

By turns comic, suspenseful, bitingly satirical, and emotionally potent, A Big Enough Lie pits personal mistruths against national ones of life-and-death consequence. Tracking a writer from the wilds of Florida to New York cubicles to Midwestern workshops to the mindscapes of Baghdad--and from love to heartbreak to solitary celebrity--Bennett's novel probes our endlessly frustrated desire to grab hold of something (or somebody) true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810131218
• ISBN13: 9780810131217
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"