Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream

Da Capo Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/ first printing July 1990, so stated on copyright page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcoevr nin black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. xiv+ 357 pp. Illustrated with photoghraphs. Now one of the iconic football books of the 20th century, the story of the Panthers of Pernian High School in Odessa, Texas, their coaches, mothers and fathers, teachers, ministers, and politicians. Bessinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, tells a deeply moving story not only of a team that regularly played in front of 20,000 spectators but laos one that is a startling examination of the role of high school sports in America. Basis for the ESPY Award winning 2004 film as well as the hit NBC/ Direct TV televison series that ran from 2006 to 2011. Fine / fine. Item #E22172
ISBN: 9780201196771

Price: $26.50

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