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Bissinger, Buzz, 1954-

Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream / H.G. Bissinger. - De Capo Press gift ed. - Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003. - xiv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm



Odessa -- The watermelon feed -- Boobie -- Dreaming of heroes -- Black and white -- The ambivalence of ivory -- School days -- East versus West -- Friday night politics -- Boobie Who? -- Sisters -- Civil War -- Heads or tails -- Friday night addiction -- The algebraic equation -- Field of dreams.

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.

ISBN: 0306812827 9780306812828

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.)--Football.
Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Football--Social aspects--Texas--Odessa.
Football.
Football--Social aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Texas--Odessa.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Football stories.
Football stories.

LC Class. No.: GV958.P47 / B57 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 796.3326209764862