Book · 1990 · Nonfiction

Friday Night Lights

Name: Friday Night Lights
Author: Buzz Bissinger

A Town, A Team, And A Dream

Buzz Bissinger

Da Capo Press · 367 pages

★ 6.4 editorial score

Bissinger spent the 1988 season in Odessa, Texas, where a whole town's self-worth rode on schoolboy football and one black star's ruined knee took his only way out. Odessa answered with death threats.

Genre

Sports

Subject

Football Small town

Setting

Texas

Time

1990Depicts 1980s

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