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The Blind Side

Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

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English
WW Norton & Co
08 January 2010
"It's not a jock book. It's not a sociology book. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good."" -- Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun

One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword."

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Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   311g
ISBN:   9780393330472
ISBN 10:   0393330478
Pages:   320
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

MICHAEL LEWIS is the author of the bestsellers Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and brilliant (The Specator), fascinating story and absorbing read (The Daily Telegraph), Moneyball (ISBN 978 0 393 32481 5).

Reviews for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

"""It's not a jock book. It's not a sociology book. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good."" -- Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun ""The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. It isn't."" -- Malcolm Gladwell ""Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy... is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can't see the forest for the trees."" -- Allen Barra - Washington Post ""[Lewis] is advancing a new genre of journalism."" -- George F. Will - New York Times Book Review ""The Blind Side works on three levels. First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL; second, as an expose of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting; and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly."" -- Wes Lukowsky - Booklist ""Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South's pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect."" -- Publishers Weekly"


  • Joint winner for YALSA Alex Award 2007.
  • Joint winner of Alex Award 2007
  • Winner of New York Times Notable Book 2006.
  • Winner of New York Times Notable Selection 2006

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