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Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights (1990) H.G. (Buzz) Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist who has written for The Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and is the author of, among other titles, A Prayer for the City. In this gripping story, Bissinger moves with his wife and young twin sons to Odessa, Texas to follow the Permian High School Panthers for a season of Friday night games. Bissinger details the dynamics of this small, hard-luck town: how football continues to inspire a surprising level of passion in a region of the West Texas desert defenseless against the booms and busts of the oil industry, abandoned by the first Bush campaign for presidency and inflicted with racial and economic divides. Over the course of the season, Bissinger adjusts his lens to tell the story of a town, a team and its players—from their injuries, their crushed spirits, the reactions of their parents and friends, to the town's reliance on the hope of what will unfold under the Friday night lights. The author reveals the harsh and appalling, along with the inspiring, in this story of one high school football team that might well be extended to thousands of similar teams nationwide. From The Miami Herald: "Bissinger's book moves far beyond sport, in a telling, damning sociological sketch." From Newsday: "Superb and disturbing ... More than a sports book, it's a search for the America of ordinary people." MORE: Amazon (synopsis and reviews) Interview with the author |
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