TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bissinger,Buzz
TI  - Friday night lights: a town, a team, and a dream 
SN  - 0306812827
AV  - GV958.P47 B57 2003
U1  - 796.3326209764862 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.)
KW  - Football
KW  - fast
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Texas
KW  - Odessa
KW  - Football stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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