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The Blind Side
- Evolution of a Game
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-20-06
- Language: English
- Publisher: Random House Audio
Regular price: $23.93
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Publisher's Summary
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.
Critic Reviews
"As he did so memorably for baseball in Moneyball, Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers....Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Fang
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 10-01-06
not the complete book
Please notice it is the abridged version, and does not cover the whole book. Unfortunately, the parts not included are the more interesting parts, which are about other players in NFL and the whole evolution of the left tackle position.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-31-16
Great just one problem
The problem is with this audio book and the real book it is not word for word there are some parts where it skips a paragraph to 5 pages. It might be because it is a different copy of the book but this one has the same cover as the book I have
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- Michael
- TAMPA, FL, USA
- 01-26-10
Outstanding
I was dissapointed when the audio came to the end. I had seen the movie which was excellent, but the book was just as good. It is an inspiring story with some amazing characters.
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- Mary Beth
- Pottsville, PA, USA
- 11-29-09
Fantastic!
This book is inspiring! It is well written and holds your attention. Great for teens who love sports books.
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