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Book Review of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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Odessa Texas isn't known to be a place big on dreams. But its high school football team, the Permian Panthers-the winningest team in Texas history-helps keep the hopes & dreams of this small town alive. Every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams come true. With frankness & compassion, H.G. Bissinger 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,