First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL second, as an exposé of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:05:16 Boxid IA40223919 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Will - New York Times Book Review "The Blind Side works on three levels. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Talking to Strangers and The Tipping Point "Lewis’s overview of the evolution of NFL strategy…is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can’t see the forest for the trees."Īllen Barra - Washington Post " is advancing a new genre of journalism." Read more that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun "The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it. It’s a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good." Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets.
When we first meet him, Michael Oher 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 writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."-Janet Maslin, New York Times Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 pages of photographs.
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