Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
May 2011 · Random House
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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.
In 1988 H.G. Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He lived with the students, coaches and townspeople who dedicate their lives to their team, sharing their joys and triumphs, their pains, injuries and bitter disappointments. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.
Friday Night Lights is one of the best books about sport ever written. It is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.
In 1988 H.G. Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He lived with the students, coaches and townspeople who dedicate their lives to their team, sharing their joys and triumphs, their pains, injuries and bitter disappointments. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.
Friday Night Lights is one of the best books about sport ever written. It is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.
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4.3
30 reviews
James Clinch
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August 5, 2014
After being a fan of the TV series I didn't know what to make of the book filled with different characters and set in real life Odessa no fictional Dillon. I did miss those lives and stories but this is a worth while story all its own. Lacking the expected Hollywood ending its tougher and some of the events that unfold will surprise and keep the pages turning.
Mike Page
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November 3, 2014
One hell of a read! History, oil boom economics, football, passion and above all else drama from start to finish. Not just for sports fans just an honest gripping read. Praise to the author
Gavin Yule
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July 14, 2013
I don't read a lot but after watching the film and TV series decided to give it a go and what can I say it was brilliant, a must read experience.
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.
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