A Friday Night Lights Companion Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas |
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Editor:
| Wilson, Leah |
Contribution by:
| Chaney, Jen Clifton, Jacob |
ISBN: | 978-1-935618-56-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
Publisher: | BenBella Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin Talk to any of the millions of devoted
Friday Night Lightsfans and they’ll tell you: it’s not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show’s portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothingand everythingto do with touchdowns.
A Friday Night Lights...
More Description Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin
Talk to any of the millions of devotedFriday Night Lightsfans and they’ll tell you: it’s not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show’s portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothingand everythingto do with touchdowns.
A Friday Night Lights Companioncelebrates the show, its fearlessness, and what it’s meant to those who love it.
Dave Campbell’s Texas Footballmanaging editor Travis Stewart provides a moving tribute to the power of high school football, by way of unlikely hero Matt Saracen
Jonna Rubin shares the lessons she’s learned from the best marriage on television: Eric and Tami Taylor’s (lesson number one: drink more wine)
Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton offers a meditation on one ofFriday Night Lights’ most fundamental values: being a part of something bigger than yourself
The Washington Post’s Jen Chaney reminds us what we love most about all our favorite Dillon residents, from Tim Riggins to Buddy Garrity to Jess Merriweather
And more writing and reflections onFriday Night Lights
A Friday Night Lights Companiontakes you from series pilot to series finale, through all five masterfully crafted seasons’ worth of love, loss, family, and football.