Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Friday night lights

Oclc number

917131452

Responsibility statement

H.G. Bissinger

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 8.0, 19.0, 6037.

Sub title

a town, a team, and a dream

Summary

H.G. Bissinger's exquisitely written account brings into sharp focus the bitter struggle between sports and education in Odessa, Texas, as well as in high schools and colleges nationwide

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Pre-season: Odessa -- The watermelon feed -- Boobie -- The season: Dreaming of heroes -- Black and White -- The ambivalence of ivory -- School days -- East versus West -- Friday night politics -- Boobie who? -- Push for the playoffs: Sisters -- Civil war -- Heads or tails -- Post-season: Friday night addiction -- The algebraic equation -- Field of dreams -- Epilogue -- Afterword

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