Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Bissinger, H. G.

ISBN 10: 0613371437 ISBN 13: 9780613371438

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2015

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.

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Review:

Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget.

About the Author:

H. G. Bissinger has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, the National Headliner Award, and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel for his reporting. He is the author of the highly acclaimed A Prayer for the City, and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He lives in Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0613371437
• ISBN 13: 9780613371438
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 432