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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game |  | Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  294 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0393330478
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9780393330472
ASIN: 0393330478
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
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Product Description
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 family's 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 quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side. This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword
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 Wow August 18, 2010
S. Bushnell (Coeur D'Alene, ID USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't like football. I would not see the movie. I was surprised when Sandra Bullock got an award for the movie based on this book. Then I read the book. I LOVE THIS BOOK. The most important part is that the main character accepts Jesus into his heart!
 Wonderful Story of Wish Fulfillment! August 11, 2010
Bookfestival (Aiea, HI)
I love 'The Blind Side' and I never watch football. I did skip some pages that were only about football. Michael Lewis explained the football parts very well, but I just wanted to get back to the story. I stayed up until 5:00 am reading 'The Blind Side' and I was surprised to see the sun coming up. I highly recommend 'The Blind Side'.
love and insparational book July 24, 2010
I really admire this book its a great football book and great for people who love who love football to read. I also have a little brother who is working on being in the NFL when he is older.
Great Storyteller, Great Story July 21, 2010
Matt Coulter
Everybody knows the story recounted in The Blind Side, so I won't recap it here for you. I'll just tell you this was a great book - one of the best I've read this year. It was historical narrative, but unlike other books of this genre by other authors, Michael Lewis did several things really well with this one.
He managed the web of characters really well. He gave background and history on most of the folks, and introduced you to all the main and supporting characters but never to the point where the complexities made it difficult to keep everybody straight (like, for example, in Charlie Wilson's War -- which, granted, covered a wider scope but got bogged down too much with all the characters). It was easy to follow and remember who everybody was - from all the assistant coaches to Michael Oher's mom and siblings to his long lost childhood friend.
Lewis also managed the pace and scope of the story well. It never felt jumpy or choppy (like, say, 5 Cities That Ruled the World) like it was zooming in and out from metanarrative to minute details and back. The pace was even and kept my interest the entire time. Anecdotes from football were timely and neatly inserted to highlight and complement Oher's and the Tuohy's story, and broke it up just enough to keep you reading.
And finally, Lewis didn't beat you over the head with any sort of moral of the story, so to speak. He simply told the story and let its power speak for itself, and then left it up to the reader to draw any sort of conclusions or morals they wanted. (A practice which is much too underdone in writing these days - and which evidently allowed many people to get upset rather than inspired by the book. According to his new afterword, he got letters from conservatives, liberals, whites, blacks, Christians, and nonchristians all complaining about the story.)
Lewis is a great storyteller and this was a great story. That combination is a powerful force which results in a great book.
Evolution of the Game ... Football and Lif July 19, 2010
Happy
You really should have some appreciation for the game of football in order to really enjoy this book. Presuming you do then you will be able to follow the evolution of not only the game of football but life in America during those same years. I was born in the early 50's, watched football on TV during the 60's 70's 80's so I can understand the technical and huge social impact of "the game" and how it evolved. That part of the book I found was very interesting informative and well worth the read. Having grown up in a family with a Dad that played and coached football during the 50's 60's and 70's this book does a great job in documenting the social issues of poverty and affluence then and now. The book conveys the difficult years we all faced and still face today in this country between the haves and have nots ... poverty and wealth the clash of the classes. A very good story worthy of a Ken Burns PBS special ... have not seen the Sandra Bullock movie ... not sure I want to ... maybe too Hollywood for me but will give it a try. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
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