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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream

by H.G. Bissinger

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream

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.

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  • 4 out of 5
    Friday Night Lights

    The film of this book is a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of the ups and downs of a High School American Football team. The book is even better. A team of 17 year olds with all the pressure and expectation of an entire town on their shoulders strive to complete the perfect season. Could this be their year for greatness?

    Review by Stephen Lindsay on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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ISBN

9780224076746

Published
April 28th 2005 by Vintage
Category
General
Number of pages
400
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
198 x 129

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