Book description
The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the town ten years later.. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Friday Night Lights as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There is no competition for the greatest book about high school football—and Buzz Bissinger’s year in the cauldron of oil-town Odessa, Texas, and its live-or-die-by-the-pigskin ethos deserves top ranking about football, period.
It’s like Platoon in the way it gets into the heads and hearts of average high school kids burdened with the passions, sins, and follies of society before they quite understand what they’ve signed on for—though their fathers and mothers and grandfathers all knew, and let them do it anyway.
From Don's list on football from a sportswriter.
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