Darryl Ponicsán

Dos marineros de la Patrulla Costera —Billy y Mule— son designados para escoltar a Larry, de dieciocho años de edad, hasta la prisión naval en la que deberá cumplir condena por un robo de poca monta.

Billy Bad-Ass, un veterano de la Marina, regenta su propio bar cuando Larry Meadows regresa a su vida treinta y cuatro años después, tras cumplir pena en una prisión naval. Meadows ha buscado a Billy para que lo acompañe en una terrible mision: la de recuperar el cuerpo de su hijo, asesinado en la guerra de Irak, que va a ser enterrado en el cementerio de Arlington. Billy esta de acuerdo, pero Meadows pretende reclutar tambien para la empresa al antiguo camarada de ambos, Mule, un compañero de correrias que ha reorientado su vida y, para gran diversion de Billy, se ha convertido en pastor de almas.Si "El ultimo deber" fue llevada a la pantalla por Hal Ashby en 1973, con Jack Nicholson al frente del reparto, este regreso de los personajes que la protagonizaron cuenta tambien con una formidable adaptacion cinematografica a cargo de Richard Linklater y producida por Amazon Studios, con Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell y Laurence Fishburne encabezando un rutilante elenco.Darryl Ponicsan nunca imagino que su primera novela, "El ultimo deber" hoy un titulo de culto, tendria continuidad. Sin embargo, con la invasion de Irak, los mismos elementos que inspiraron el original la injusticia, una guerra sin sentido, hombres de honor atrapados en posiciones insostenibles lo llevaron a revisitar a Billy Bad-Ass, Mule y el des...

Now a major motion picture, directed by five-time Oscar-nominee Richard Linklater and starring Oscar nominees Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne, Last Flag Flying is the brilliant, earthy novel of three veterans on one moving road trip.

Billy Bad-Ass, un veterano de la Marina, regenta su propio bar cuando Larry Meadows regresa a su vida treinta y cuatro años después, tras cumplir pena en una prisión naval. Meadows ha buscado a Billy para que lo acompañe en una terrible mision: la de recuperar el cuerpo de su hijo, asesinado en la guerra de Irak, que va a ser enterrado en el cementerio de Arlington. Billy esta de acuerdo, pero Meadows pretende reclutar tambien para la empresa al antiguo camarada de ambos, Mule, un compañero de correrias que ha reorientado su vida y, para gran diversion de Billy, se ha convertido en pastor de almas.Si "El ultimo deber" fue llevada a la pantalla por Hal Ashby en 1973, con Jack Nicholson al frente del reparto, este regreso de los personajes que la protagonizaron cuenta tambien con una formidable adaptacion cinematografica a cargo de Richard Linklater y producida por Amazon Studios, con Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell y Laurence Fishburne encabezando un rutilante elenco.Darryl Ponicsan nunca imagino que su primera novela, "El ultimo deber" hoy un titulo de culto, tendria continuidad. Sin embargo, con la invasion de Irak, los mismos elementos que inspiraron el original la injusticia, una guerra sin sentido, hombres de honor atrapados en posiciones insostenibles lo llevaron a revisitar a Billy Bad-Ass, Mule y el desventurado Meadows, para ver como les iba a sus personajes en la vida estadounidense posterior al 11 de septiembre. El resultado es "La ultima bandera", una historia tan dura y tierna, tan triste y divertida como "El ultimo deber". Lo que sigue es un recorrido como el que realizaron 34 años atras: un viaje desde Norfolk a Portsmouth, en una mision tan desgarradora y emocionante como la primera.Un retrato veraz y conmovedor de los anhelos y temores de la America contemporanea. RICHARD ADAMSDarryl ha capturado la complejidad de la camaraderia masculina con tanta brillantez como lo hizo en "El ultimo deber". BRYAN CRANSTON

Dos marineros de la Patrulla Costera —Billy y Mule— son designados para escoltar a Larry, de dieciocho años de edad, hasta la prisión naval en la que deberá cumplir condena por un hurto de poca monta

Discover the classic, acclaimed story that continued in the new book Last Flag Flying, now a major motion picture from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater.In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in Virginia - Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall - are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft.Its good duty, until the two realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner. In the five days allotted for the detail, they decide to show Meadows something of the life he doesnt yet know, to help him survive the long ordeal ahead and to purge their own shame. What follows is an indelible journey of initiation and discovery, filled with beer-soaked wisdom, big city lights, revelry, brawls, debauchery, love, and surprising moments of tenderness.

Now a major motion picture, directed by five-time Oscar-nominee Richard Linklater and starring Oscar nominees Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne.When middle-aged veteran Meadows learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of the death of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq, he reunites with aging companions Billy Bad-Ass Buddusky and Mule Mulhall to perform a sacred task: the proper burial of his boy.So begins the journey up the Eastern seaboard, both a solemn mission and a protest against injustice, a celebration of life that is at once irreverent, funny, profane and deeply moving.Darryl Ponicsans debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published and made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson. Last Flag Flying, set thirty-four years after the events of The Last Detail, brings together the same beloved characters for a striking meditation on the passage of time and the nature of truth.The Last Detail, which introduced the characters of Last Flag Flying, is also available in ebook now.

From the author of The Last Detail and Last Flag Flying, a surreal comic novel in the tradition of Joseph Heller about movies, small-town politics, and a place between heaven and hell. Following a rewrite job in New York City, veteran screenwriter D. K. Kecskemeti finds himself not in his home in Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town, where hes greeted by an obsequious houseman who informs that his wife, Hope, is gone. The note she left reveals that shes on a retreat to deal with a personal crisis of which DK was somehow unaware. Confused and disoriented, unable to sleep, he wanders the deserted streets. He comes upon three cops, guns drawn, at the open doorway of a residence. When the doorway fills with a blinding light, they open fire. The victim falls right next to DK. She is a beautiful black woman, who happens to be naked . . . and an angel. She folds her wings as she utters her last words: Hope is alive.In the days that follow, as he seeks answers about the shooting and a way to rejoin his wife, DK learns more about his new hometown and meets its residents, who try to convince himthrough the roar of leaf blowersthat hes lucky to be in this little slice of heaven. But what can a screenwriter do when "a little slice of heaven" is closer to a small corner of hell?