Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

H.G Bissinger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2015
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-82420-3 (ISBN)

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The 25th Anniversary Edition of a sports classic that is so much more than a sports book

The 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Sports Illustrated 's best football book of all time, with a new afterword by the authorReturn once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa,the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true.With frankness and compassion, H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires,and sometimes shatters,the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.

H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, the classic that inspired the acclaimed movie and television series. He is a longtime contributing editor for Vanity Fair and has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, the Daily Beast, and many other publications. He divides his time between homes in Philadelphia and the Pacific Northwest.

Zusatzinfo	black-and-white photographs throughout
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 208 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-306-82420-5 / 0306824205
ISBN-13	978-0-306-82420-3 / 9780306824203
Zustand	Neuware