TY - BOOK AU - Bissinger, H.G. TI - Friday night lights : : a town, a team, and a dream / SN - 9780224076746 U1 - 796.332 PY - 1990///. CY - London : PB - Yellow Jersey Press, KW - Football KW - Social aspects KW - Texas KW - Odessa KW - Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.) KW - Sports KW - Nonfiction N2 - amed Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them.Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true.With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize winner H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures 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.The inspiration for the hit television program and film of the same name, this anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author ER -