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Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Friday Night Lights
- Untertitel
- A Town, a Team, and a Dream - 25th Anniversary Edition
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Buzz Bissinger
- Verlag
- Da Capo Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0306824205
- ISBN13
- 9780306824203
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Sport, Sport & Outdoor, Journalismus, Fußball, Sportlerbiografien
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- With a new afterword by the author Return once again to the timeless account of 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, H. G. Bissinger chronicles 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. The author’s new afterword not only updates the story but also offers a sure-to-be controversial assessment of the state of football today.