Friday Night Lights

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

H G Bissinger

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JONATHAN CAPE
01 March 2005

History of the Americas; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Sports & outdoor recreation; American football

In the state of Texas, American football is a religion.

And nowhere in Texas is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa.

There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of 17-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 11 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.

By: H G Bissinger
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 287g
ISBN: 9780224076746
ISBN 10: 0224076744
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 March 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

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