Friday night lights
Subtitle: a town, a team, and a dream
By: by H.G. Bissinger.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.) -- Football; Football -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Odessa
Description: Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the idol business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. [In this book, the author] chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires - and sometimes shatters - the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.-Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1990. With new afterword.