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

Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.

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  • "Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team."@en
  • "In tiny Odessa, Texas, the late eighties brought much hardship -- a boom-bust oil economy endures another bust, and the town becomes racially and socially divided. In 1988 Bissinger spends four months with the Permian Panther football team, kids who literally carry the hopes of the town on their shoulders during the championship season."
  • "Chronicles the 1988 season of the Odessa, Texas Panthers and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shaped the community and resulted in the team being disqualified from the playoffs for breaking a variety of league rules."@en
  • "Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed All-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.--[Source inconnue]."
  • "Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the idol 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. [In this book, the author] 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.-Back cover."
  • "Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the idol 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. [In this book, the author] 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.-Back cover."@en
  • "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."
  • "A great book of capturing Odessa as it really is. It is bigger than Texas and tells of undercurrents that shape society, even though it is moving and troubling."@en
  • "Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, exploring the role of high school sports in America and how they can bring communities together, and tear them apart."
  • "La 4e de couverture indique : "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.""
  • "Follows the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the impact of the championship team on the small town."
  • "Examines the role of high school sports in America as seen through the story of a high school football season in Odessa, Texas."@en
  • "Return once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history."@en
  • "Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed All-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team."@en

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  • "Sports stories"@en
  • "ADULT"@en

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