The Blind Side Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

ISBN 10: 039306123X / ISBN 13: 9780393061239

Published by W. W. Norton, 2006

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VG+ hardcover in VG+ jacket. 2006. Fifth printing. SIGNED by AUTHOR on plate to FFEP. Pages all clean/unmarked and crisp. Jacket price clipped. MIldest of scuffs. Jacket bright and clean. Solid. 299 pp. Seller Inventory # A22474

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Blind Side Evolution of a Game

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, 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 such as, say, how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a 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 into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

Review:

Its dialogue is sharp and its anecdotes well chosen.--Janet Maslin

As close to perfect as a work of popular nonfiction can be.--Malcolm Gladwell

I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like.--Malcolm Gladwell