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Friday Night Lights

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

by H. G. Bissinger

Friday Night Lights

Paperback, 357 pages, Perseus Books Group, List Price: $7.99 | purchase

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Book Summary

Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.

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Peter Berg, 'Nights' Manager

Guest host Dave Davies talks with Peter Berg, executive producer of NBC's Friday Night Lights, who also directed and co-wrote the 2004 film of the same title. Both are adapted from H.G. Bissinger's book about the high-stakes world of Texas high-school football. The TV series, which won a Peabody Award, ends its first season tonight.

Peter Berg

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