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

Bissinger, H. G.

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ISBN 10: 0306812827 ISBN 13: 9780306812828

Verlag: Da Capo Pr, 2003

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Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Bissinger chronicles one of the Panthers' dramatic seasons and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires--and sometimes shatters--the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.

Biografía del autor:

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. The author of the highly acclaimed A Prayer for the City, he has written for the television series NYPD Blue and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He lives in Philadelphia.

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• Verlag: Da Capo Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0306812827
• ISBN 13: 9780306812828
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384