The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
By Michael Lewis
Read by Stephen Hoye
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1 Format: Digital Download
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.
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Summary
Summary
One of the 2006 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Nonfiction
Winner of a 2007 YALSA Alex Award
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A New York Times bestseller
Winner of Alex Award, 2007
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Details
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Available Formats : | Digital Download |
Runtime: | 11.76 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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