Blind Side : The Evolution of a Game

English

ISBN: 0393330478

EAN: 9780393330472

Category: Education / Higher/Sports & Recreation / General/Sports & Recreation / Football/

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Release Date: 09/21/2007

Synopsis: One day Michael Oher will 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 how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the familys love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterbacks greatest vulnerability: his blind side. This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword.

Awards: New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

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Blind Side : The Evolution of a Game

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 9.88 oz

Pages: 320