Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream,9780306812828

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

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ISBN13: 9780306812828
ISBN10: 0306812827
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-10-08
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary

The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the town ten years later

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Prologue 1(22)
PRE-SEASON
1. Odessa
23(15)
2. The Watermelon Feed
38(15)
3. Boobie
53(20)
THE SEASON
4. Dreaming of Heroes
73(16)
5. Black and White
89(22)
6. The Ambivalence of Ivory
111(17)
7. School Days
128(25)
8. East Versus West
153(20)
9. Friday Night Politics
173(21)
10. Boobie Who?
194(17)
PUSH FOR THE PLAYOFFS
11. Sisters
211(22)
12. Civil War
233(18)
13. Heads or Tails
251(16)
POST-SEASON
14. Friday Night Addiction
267(24)
15. The Algebraic Equation
291(22)
16. Field of Dreams
313(26)
Epilogue 339(18)
Afterword 357(7)
Acknowledgments 364(1)
List of Illustrations 365

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