Friday Night Lights
A Town, a Team, and a Dream
$31.89
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2005
Summary
A classic of sportswriting - about a season spent following a town and a team’s hopes and shattered dreams - the book behind the major Hollywood film and the acclaimed TV series.
In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. In front of 20,000 people.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224076746 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224076744 |
| Author: | H.G. Bissinger |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Superb and disturbing - More than a sports book, it’s a search for the America of ordinary people.
Superb and disturbing - More than a sports book, it’s a search for the America of ordinary people. * Newsday *
A remarkable book, fascinating from start to finish, full of surprises. * David Halberstam *
Friday Night Lights offers a biting indictment of the sports craziness that grips … most of American society, while at the same time providing a moving evocation of its powerful allure. * New York Times Book Review *
Just about everything you could ask for in a sports book * New York Times *
About The Author
H.G. Bissinger
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.
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