The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Lewis, Michael

ISBN 10 : 030771506X ISBN 13 : 9780307715067

Editeur : Random House, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Lewis Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.

When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.

           
What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.

           
In The Blind Side, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power.

Revue de presse

"[Lewis] is advancing a new genre of journalism." --George F. Will, New York Times Book Review

"The Blind Side works on three levels. First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL; second, as an exposé of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting; and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly." --Wes Lukowsky, Booklist

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 030771506X
• ISBN 13: 9780307715067
• Reliure: CD
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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