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Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a Dream (Paperback, New Ed)
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Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a Dream (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R397
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Discovery Miles 3 610
You Save R36 (9%)
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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.
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