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In Texas il football è una religione. E in nessun altro luogo è vissuto con l'intensità che si respira a Odessa - «paradossale combinazione tra il vecchio Sud e il selvaggio West» -, dove ogni venerdì sera d'autunno, illuminata dai riflettori dello stadio, una squadra di diciassettenni va in campo davanti a ventimila spettatori. Non ci sono atleti straordinari, forse nessuno giocherà nei pro, ma intorno alle inebrianti vittorie e alle inopinate sconfitte dei Panthers si è cementato negli anni l'orgoglio di un'intera comunità. Nel 1988 H.G. Bissinger decise di trascorrere un anno proprio lì, a Odessa, «la città peggiore sulla faccia della Terra», quella con il più alto tasso di omicidi della nazione, tra file di motel semivuoti e impianti di estrazione in disuso, dove gli abitanti pensavano che «l'unico governo buono fosse l'assenza di governo». Osservatore curioso e implacabile, Bissinger passò quell'anno a studiare e intervistare i giocatori, lo staff tecnico, la gente del posto, per ricomporre poi i tasselli di una cittadina tormentata dai fantasmi della segregazione e logorata dalla schizofrenia del mercato petrolifero, in cui l'euforia del boom cede ogni volta il passo alla depressione più nera.
- ISBN: 883297102X
- Casa Editrice: 66th and 2nd
- Pagine: 407
- Data di uscita: 23-01-2020
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i'm going to make a confession to all of you. i like sports. watching them, that is. i'm not a total monster. i understand if we can no longer be friends. this is an incredible depiction of sports, of high school, of class, and of race. it's pretty remarkable what it's able to achieve, and it makes it i Leggi tutto
This book is heartbreaking. I grew up in a very liberal part of the country. My family is comprised mostly of hard-working European immigrants who value education above all else. In many ways, I should be the last person able to appreciate or understand life in small-town Texas with its conservative Leggi tutto
I was on an airplane one Friday night when I was reading this book. As the plane took off from Cleveland I noticed a high school football game in progress. I could see the lights.. the two teams on the field.. the crowd and the marching band. I watched the field as long as I could. Just at the point Leggi tutto
If you think this book is about high school football in Texas, you're pretty much wrong. There is a fair amount about football, but this book is really a sort of sociological study of a small Texas town where Football is played. There is a lot about the difficulties of the local economy after the oi Leggi tutto
I didn't grow up in a football-watching family. My father, who apparently loved the game, passed away when I was young. My mother was much more interested in baseball, and had coworkers with season tickets, so I grew up going to the Kingdome to watch Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Joey Cora, Edgar
This is a fantastic book. I felt sick to my stomach reading it. I played football in high school in a place where there was much more than high school football for most people to do on a Friday night. I can relate to some aspects of the story: football games were the only sporting events in my school Leggi tutto
Bissinger, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, chronicles a year in the life of Odessa Texas, and more particularly the Permian High School Panther football team, the social nexus of this third rate town. It follows the stories of players for the team, present and past, as well as a look at some Leggi tutto
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