Bibliograph

Friday night lights, a town, a team, and a dream, H.G. Bissinger

Type

Label

Friday night lights, a town, a team, and a dream, H.G. Bissinger

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1220L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Friday night lights

Oclc number

954256896

Responsibility statement

H.G. Bissinger

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 8.0, 19, 19, 6037

Sub title

a town, a team, and a dream

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Pre-season: Odessa -- The watermelon feed -- Boobie -- The season: Dreaming of heroes -- Black and White -- The ambivalence of ivory -- School days -- East versus West -- Friday night politics -- Boobie who? -- Push for the playoffs: Sisters -- Civil war -- Heads or tails -- Post-season: Friday night addiction -- The algebraic equation -- Field of dreams -- Epilogue -- Afterword

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