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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003.Edition: De Capo Press gift edDescription: xiv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306812827
  • 9780306812828
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.3326209764862 22
LOC classification:
  • GV958.P47 B57 2003
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books Odessa College Stacks 796.332 623F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51994001461146
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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.

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