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Search - Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new after word that looks at the players and the town ten years later.Members who requested this book also requested:
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H.G. Bissinger chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires--and sometimes shatters--the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams. But its high school football team, the Permian Panthers - the winningest team in Texas history - helps keep the hopes and dreams of this small town alive. Every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true/.
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Cheryl C. from WAKEFIELD, RI wrote on 8/28/2006...this book is definately better than the movie. Alot of detail to the characters and an inspiring book. a must read.
Mandy C. from GUNTERSVILLE, AL wrote on 4/18/2006...if you like football, you will enjoy this book. I loved it!
Having grown up in a New York suburb where football players were barely one rung lower than God, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was a scary, very honest look back at a phonomenon I don't ever want to live near again. Well written, certainly easy to see why people in Odessa, Texas aren't happy with the author, a compelling read.
Linda C. (The National Bestseller--Now a Major Motion Picture from Universal Pictures and Image Entertainment.
"A pressure-cooker of a book, it scalds...Bissinger touches the real boy in American manhood when he writes about game-time Friday night."--Christian Science Monitor
"Superb and disturbing...More than a sports book, it's a search for the America of ordinary people."--Newsday
H. G. Bissinger has won the Pultizer Prize, the Livingston Award, the National Headliner Award, and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel for his reporting. The author of the highly accaimed A PRAYER FOR THE CITY, he has written for the television series NYPD BLUE and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S #1 FOOTBALL BOOK OF ALL TIME
Aimee S. from SOMERVILLE, MA wrote on 6/22/2005...I am sure a lot of you have seen this movie, but reading the book has truly made the movie even more life like. The book allows you to get to know the characters in more ways and you are able to really feel for what they go through. Even if you have seen the movie and know the story the book is worth reading.