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

Bissinger, H G

 
9780224076746: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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ISBN 10: 0224076744 ISBN 13: 9780224076746
Editorial: Yellow Jersey, 2005

Sinopsis

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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Acerca 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. He is the author of the highly acclaimed A Prayer for the City, and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Editorial
Yellow Jersey
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0224076744
ISBN 13 
9780224076746
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Número de páginas
416
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