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... And he scratched his old itch:
“So I went in search of the Friday night lights, to find a town where they brightly blazed, that lay beyond the East Coast and the grip of the big cities, a place that people had to pull out an atlas to find and had seen better times, a real America. ...
It was in the severely depressed belly of the Texas oil patch, with a team in town called the Permian Panthers that played to as many as twenty thousand fans on a Friday night. ... ”
THE BOOK:
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is more reportage than non-fiction novel, and hence is of most interest to the millions of Americans for whom sports at the local level is a religion. ... As Bissinger noted:
“Odessa is the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rises to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly, ignite the darkness. ...
As an outsider looking in Bissinger obviously felt the darkness was not just the color of the night, but the color of the soul. ... com/book-review-758B-420DD60-39B041EE-prod1/tk_~CB008. ...
By finding the heart of that dismal part of Middle America’s darkness in the vast expanse of the West Texas plains, Bissinger has shown how illusory the Friday night lights can be.
Approximate Word count = 1461
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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