![]() ![]() We had been betrayed, and it was devastating." (I-7.). ![]() An academic counselor at the high school was quoted as saying: "The coaches were up all night reading the book and came in the next day crying. Instead they got a "Peyton Place" - a look at unsavory racial tensions and misplaced educational priorities for the sake of football wins. The author of Friday Night Lights, Bissinger is present in the text as he interviews players, coaches, and fans, and describes what life is like in Odessa. According to a 2004 article in the Chicago Tribune, the football coaches at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas got this exact advance copy of the book and were devastated by how they and the community were depicted: "The community expected Bissinger's book to be a football version of "Hoosiers" - the inspiring account of a small Indiana high school's quest for a basketball championship. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. "Special Advance Reading Copy." Mint condition! Pre-publication softcover edition of the book about one football-mad town's quest for a state football championship. ![]()
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